Introduction: Critical reflections on learning about the dynamics of world politics and the driving forces of global history
Part I: War and peace: The cases of Ukraine and the OSCE
1. Looking at the war in Ukraine and ways it could end from a global perspective
With Tuomas Forsberg
2. The shape of things to come: a further dialogue
With Tuomas Forsberg
3. The relevance of the Helsinki Process and the Charter of Paris for future security policies and institutions
Part II: Political economy
4. The long downward wave of the world economy and the future of global conflict
5. What next? An explanation of the 2008–2009 slump and two scenarios of the shape of things to come
6. World history and the political economy of crises: ten theses on the dialectics of power and learning
7. Prices, values, and good: toward a synthesis of economic and normative theory
Part III: Political theory
8. Global justice: a democratic perspective
9. The role of ‘critical’ in the theory and practice of global civil society
10. The rational kernel within Samir Amin’s mythological shell: the idea of a democratic and pluralist world political party
11. Repurposing the university in the 21st century: toward a progressive global vision
Biography
Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics and Global Political Economy at the University of Helsinki. His recent books include World Statehood (2023) and The Three Fields of Global Political Economy (Routledge 2022). Patomäki has worked in universities around the world and is a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.
