Order Wars and Floating Balance - How Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in Twenty First

This book is a synthesis of two separate bodies of thoughts, from Western and East Asian ideas and philosophies respectively. The authors deploy the major ideas of key Western and East Asian thinkers to shed a new light on their usefulness in understanding the transition of global order. They locate new ideas to overcome the contradictions of the late modern world and provide some ideational building blocks of a new global order. The new concepts proposed are: recognition between the great civilizations; a harmony and floating balance between and within contrasts-individual versus community, freedom versus equality-;and mediation between friends and foes.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Herberg-Rothe, Andreas Son Herberg-Rothe, Herberg-Rothe Andreas, Key-young Son
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138057104
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05710-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Political Ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Geopolitics, International Relations, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Geography, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Political ideologies and movements