Debating Worlds

Daniel Deudney is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of several books, including Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity and Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He is the author of eight books, including A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order and Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order. Karoline Postel-Vinay is Director of Research at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris. She is a specialist on the geopolitics of Japan and East Asia, andher books include The G20: A New Geopolitical Order and L'Occident et sa bonne parole: nos représentations du monde, de l'Europe coloniale à l'Amérique hégémonique.

• Introduction: Debating Worlds Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, Karoline Postel-VinayChapter One: Angloworld Narratives: Race as Global GovernanceDuncan BellChapter Two: The Rise and Fall of a Global Narrative: The Soviet Challenge to the Western WorldMichael CoxChapter Three: Pan-Islamic Narratives of the Global Order, 1870-1980Cemil Aydin Chapter Four: The Enduring Dilemma of Japan's Uniqueness NarrativesSaori Katada and Kei KogaChapter Five: Writing the Right: Radical Conservative Narratives of GlobalizationJean-Francois Drolet and Michael WilliamsChapter Six: The Chinese Global in the Long Postwar: War, Civilization and Infrastructure since 1945Rana MitterChapter Seven: Narrating India in/and the World: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial ContestationsItty AbrahamChapter Eight: Inequality, Development, and Global Distributive JusticeJeremy Adelman Chapter Nine: The Great Schism: Scientific-technological Modernity vs Greenpeace CivilizationDaniel DeudneyConclusion: Many Worlds and the Coming Narrative Dilemma Karoline Postel-Vinay

Debating Worlds is a stimulating book that appealsto a cross-disciplinaryscholarly audience and succeeds in offering a map of global narratives.Regardless of whether the collection enables us to navigate towardthe plural and universal future the editors hope for, it certainlyoffers a clear-eyed diagnosis of our present narrative condition.Running through these case studies is the necessity for allcommunitynarratives to contain a history that justifies their identity- readily apparent in the fights over community/ national history waged in political campaigns and public spheres over the world today, whether in Ukraine, India, or the United States.