1st Edition
Cultures, Nationalism and Populism New Challenges to Multilateralism
Foreword
José Luís de Sales Marques
Introduction
Thomas Meyer
Part I: Competing Modernities and Models of Modernization
1. Multiple modernities and anti-modernism today
Thomas Meyer
2. Nation-building in the era of populism and the Muslim intelligentsia: The case of Indonesia
Yudi Latif
3. Can we explain multiple modernities? Suggested insights and their test in a South American context
Renato G. Flôres, Jr.
4. Time, modernity, and the resurgence of right-wing populism
Lewis P. Hinchman
Part II: The EU and China: Diverse Identities and Political Prospects
5. Modernization and modernity: Authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics
Xinning Song
6. The Political Identity of Europeans and the challenges of the time after modernity
Furio Cerutti
Part III: Challenges for a Common Agenda of a New Multilateral Convergence
7. Multiple modernities in a multipolar and multiregional world: Some conditions for an interregional dialogue
Mario Telò
8. The crisis of the Western liberal order and the rise of the new populism
Andrew Gamble
9. Populism, globalization, and future world order
Qin Yaqing
10. Conflicting liberties and modernities in comparative perspective
C. K. Martin Chung
Conclusion
Mario Telò
Biography
Thomas Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and Editor-in-Chief of the monthly political magazine, Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte.
José Luís de Sales Marques is President of the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM), Macau.
Mario Telò is the Jean Monnet Chair of International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Rome’s LUISS, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels.
"This stimulating collection of essays probes the role of culture in the contests over multiple modernities and its discontents. In transcending the conventional binary of East and West, the book develops novel perspectives on some of the most salient issues in contemporary world politics." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA.
"This book uses the conceptual framework of multiple modernities to probe the various contestions about global and regional orders. It engages in a dialogue among European, Latin American, and Asian scholars on some of the most pressing questions of our times." - Thomas Risse, Free University of Berlin, Germany.






