Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism

David L. Blaney is G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA.Naeem Inayatullah is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College, USA.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Liberal Fundamentals: Invisible, Invasive, Artful and Bloody HandsChapter 2. Global Capitalism, Inequality, and PovertyChapter 3. Liberal IPE as Colonial ScienceChapter 4. Levels, Eurocentrism and Positive ScienceChapter 5. Units, Markets, Relations and FlowChapter 6. Complex Societies and Alternative Worlds: Whither the Right to a Share?EpilogueBibliography

The world has changed in many ways in the decade since the global financial crisis. Instead of seeing a liberalism in temporary retreat, Blaney and Inayatullah ask whether liberalism was ever as secure as either a political or an intellectual project as its advocates have traditionally made out. If, as they say, doubts about the liberal world were endemic to the earliest proto-liberal theorists, then we need to know much more about the content of those doubts if we are to make sense of the world in which we find ourselves today.