Contestations of Liberal Order The West in Crisis?
This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis. Currently, the West appears less as a modernizing or civilizing entity leading the way and more as being engulfed in a deep crisis. Simultaneously, the West still appears
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Contestations of Liberal Order
Marko Lehti • Henna-Riikka Pennanen Jukka Jouhki Editors
Contestations of Liberal Order The West in Crisis?
Editors Marko Lehti Tampere Peace Research Institute Tampere University Tampere, Finland
Henna-Riikka Pennanen Turku Institute for Advanced Studies University of Turku Turku, Finland
Jukka Jouhki Department of History and Ethnology University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland
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Acknowledgements
The original idea for the book was conceived at a conference titled “The West: Concept, Narrative, and Politics,” at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in December 2016. The conference was organized by The West Network (https://thewestnetwork.org/), an international, multidisciplinary research network focusing on “the West,” and coordinated from the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä. During the past decade, the theme of our book, “crises of the liberal West,” has become more topical year by year, although the understanding of these crises has somewhat transformed after 2016. This book project can be regarded as a continuation, or “volume two,” to the book The Struggle for the West. A divided and contested legacy (Routledge, 2010), jointly edited by Marko Lehti and Christopher Browning. This project is also a logical continuation to the edited volume in Finnish, Länsi: käsite, kertomus, ja maailmankuva (The West: Concept, Narrative and
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