The End of American World Order

169 Pages·2014·1.47 MB·English

by  Amitav Acharya

The End of
American
World Order

The End of
American
World Order
Amitav Acharya
polity
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Contents
Tables vi
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 A Multiplex World 1
2 The Rise and Fall of the Unipolar Moment 12
3 The Myths of Liberal Hegemony 33
4 Emerging Powers: The Hype of the Rest? 59
5 Regional Worlds 79
6 Worlds in Collusion 106
Notes and References 119
Index 139
Tables
4.1  Overview of BRICS: 1990 and 2010  62
4.2  Economies of G20 members (2009 estimated)  63
Abbreviations
ANC African National Congress
ANZUS Australia, New Zealand, United States
Security Treaty
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEM Asia-Europe Meeting
AU African Union
BASIC BRIC plus South Africa, minus Russia
BRIC Brazil, Russia, India, China
BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
BRICS AM BRIC plus South African and Mexico
CENTO Central Treaty Organization
CIVETS Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt,
Turkey, South Africa
CSBM Confidence and Security-Building Measures
CSCE Commission on Security and Cooperation in
Europe
CSSDCA Conference on Security, Stability
Development and Cooperation in Africa
G7 Group of Seven
G8 Group of Eight
G20 Group of Twenty
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GNI Gross National Income
EAEC East Asia Economic Caucus
EAEG East Asian Economic Group
EAS East Asia Summit
viii Abbreviations
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African
States
EEC European Economic Community
EU European Union
EUISS European Union Institute for Security
Studies
FEALAC Forum for East Asia-Latin America
Cooperation
GCC Gulf Cooperation Council
HST Hegemonic Stability Theory
IBSA India, Brazil, South Africa
ICC International Criminal Court
ICISS International Commission on Intervention
and State Sovereignty
IMF International Monetary Fund
MERCOSUR Southern Common Market
MIST Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development
NGO Non-Government Organization
NIC National Intelligence Council
NIEO New International Economic Order
OAS Organization of American States
OAU Organization of African Unity
OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development
PPP Purchasing Power Parity
R2P Responsibility to Protect
RTA Regional Trade Agreement
SAARC South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation
SADC Southern African Development Community
SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
SEATO Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
UK United Kingdom
UN United Nations
UNSC United Nations Security Council
US United States
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
WTO World Trade Organization
ZOFPAN Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality
Acknowledgments
An entire first draft of this book was completed while I
was a Christensen Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford,
during the Trinity term of 2013. I am grateful to the
fellows of the College, especially my academic host Louise
Fawcett, for electing me to this prestigious fellowship and
making my stay with them highly enjoyable and intellectu-
ally rewarding. Andrew Hurrell and Yuen Foong Khong
indulged me by critically discussing and reacting to some
of the themes of the book.
A lecture at Oxford’s Department of Politics and Inter-
national Relations on June 6, 2013, moderated by Duncan
Snidal, allowed me to have the ideas and arguments of the
book debated among a lively audience of faculty, students,
and visitors, and brought closure to the book.
The encouragement of Louise Knight of Polity Press is
what got me to write this book in the first place. Discus-
sions with my students in the course of my graduate
seminar on “New Multilateralism” at American Univer-
sity, Washington, DC, during the Fall of 2012 helped shape
and sharpen the book’s arguments. I thank Louis Goodman
for his constant encouragement and for reading and com-
menting on the entire manuscript, as well as Allan Layug,