Liberal Order

Review – Confronting China

Timothy R. Heath • Mar 1 2025 • Features

Confronting China offers sharp policy insights but leans too heavily on military competition, overlooking key economic and political factors in US-China rivalry.

Thinking Global Podcast – G. John Ikenberry (Part Two)

E-International Relations • Mar 25 2024 • Features

In the second part of our interview, G. John Ikenberry talks more about the Liberal International Order and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Thinking Global Podcast – G. John Ikenberry (Part One)

E-International Relations • Mar 18 2024 • Features

In the first of a two part series, G. John Ikenberry talks about the ‘crisis’ of the Liberal International Order and how the Russian invasion of Ukraine relates to this.

The West and Turkish Aspirations: Limits of the Liberal Gaze

Kostas A. Lavdas and Panagiota Chatzilymperi • Nov 14 2023 • Articles

Relations between Turkey and the West appear to be unpredictable, whilst optimism on Muslim democracy is on the wane.

Opinion – A New World Order? From a Liberal to a Post-Western Order

Giorgio Shani and Hartmut Behr • Mar 13 2022 • Articles

The flooding of arms into Ukraine will neither bring peace, nor an end to fighting but a protracted war with civilian casualties and unforeseen consequences.

‘My Order, My Rules’: China and the American Rules-Based Order in Historical Perspective

William M. Zolinger Fujii • Dec 28 2021 • Articles

Faced with a rising and revisionist China, the US has come to emphasise the maintenance of a rules-based order as a substitute for what it sees as American rules and order.