1st Edition
Order Wars and Floating Balance How the Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in the Twenty-First Century
Preface
Prologue: The Birth Pains of a New Global Order
Part 1: The Order War
1.The Order Wars in the Twenty-First Century
2.Between Lyotard and Hegel: Beyond Kant and the Binary Logic
3.The End of Western Modernity?
Part 2: Floating Balance
4.Clausewitz’s ‘Wondrous Trinity’ and Floating Balance
5.Clausewitz, Polarity, and a Different Dialectics: A New Beginning
Part 3: Harmony
6.Harmony between Freedom and Equality
7.Confucian Harmony and East Asia’s Mega-Discourses for Governance
Part 4: Recognition
8.Marx’s Reversal of Hegel
9.Between Clausewitz and Hegel: Revitalizing the Struggle for Recognition
10.Between Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt: Mediation between Friends and Foes
Epilogue: Sharing Power in a New Global Order
Biography
Andreas Herberg-Rothe is Senior Lecturer at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Key-young Son is Humanities Korea Professor at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University
'Drawing on Clausewitz, Confucius and other East Asian and European theorists, this capacious book's call for recognition of differences among different communities moves beyond binary thought and the conceptual and political cul-de-sac of modernity. This is an ambitious and thought-provoking effort addressing a political problem that none of us can any longer neglect.' - Peter J. Katzenstein, Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, USA'An important and timely book to our understanding of international order, in particular when the rising powers in the power transition process are non-Western countries. Neatly framed, balanced, informed, lucid and important, this book with the painstaking efforts convincingly deconstructs the common sense on the incommensurability between the West and the Rest, regardless such rivalry is based on either historical or cultural grounds. This is particularly meaningful to Chinese IR which has long been dominated by the parochial position on the heterogeneous nature between Chinese and Western culture and hence has spent thirty years on Chinese IR theory. This book has pointed out a new direction of theoretical studies for both Western and non-Western IR scholars.' - Lu Peng, Research Fellow, Nanjing University, China
'Herberg-Rothe and Son provide a tantalizing mixture of philosophic insights applied to realist problems. They offer promising pathways around the binary formulations that so easily foster international conflicts.' - T.J. Pempel, Jack M. Forcey Professor, University of California, Berkeley
'Andreas Herberg-Rothe and Key-young Son revisit the legacy of great thinkers of Europe and East Asia—Hegel, Clausewitz, Confucius, Schmitt and Arendt— in search of fresh ideas to overcome seemingly intractable contradictions of the contemporary era. This book, which blends political philosophy with international relations theory, is no easy reading, but it is certainly thought-provoking and intellectually rewarding.' - Artyom Lukin, Deputy Director for Research, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia
