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World Order

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The concept of World order is located between claim and reality. Consequently, the two idealtypes compete in the tension between realism and idealism. Ideas about a world state or democratic peace compete with the realistic models of “hegemonic stability” or the “balance of power”. The Cold War acted as a substitute for order. Since 1989, the competition between various world order models has given way to growing disorder in the world.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf. Jürgen Osterhammel, Weltordnungskonzepte, in: Jost Dülffer/Wilfried Loth (eds.), Dimensionen internationaler Geschichte, Munich: Oldenbourg, 2012, p. 409.

  2. 2.

    Cf. Heinrich Triepel, Die Hegemonie. Ein Buch von führenden Staaten, Stuttgart/Berlin: Kohlhammer, 1938, pp. 125ff.

  3. 3.

    Ibid, p. 189 and 283.

  4. 4.

    Cf. Ulrich Menzel, Die Hierarchie der Staatenwelt. Historisch-komparative Untersuchung zu einer Theorie der internationalen Ordnung, in: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, No. 11.2/2010, pp. 161–191.

  5. 5.

    Cf. Christian Hacke, Zuviel Theorie? Zuwenig Geschichte? Eine kritische Zwischenbilanz der Disziplin der Internationalen Beziehungen in Deutschland, Hamburg: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, 2003, pp. 13f.; Michael Doyle, Empires, Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1986, pp. 70.

  6. 6.

    John H. Herz, Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma, in: World Politics, Vol 2., No. 2 (January 1950), pp. 157–180.

  7. 7.

    Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, London: Penguin Books, 1963, p. 11.

  8. 8.

    Gert Krell, Weltbilder und Weltordnung. Einführung in die Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2003, p. 142.

  9. 9.

    Jürgen Osterhammel, Weltordnungskonzepte, op. cit., p. 419.

  10. 10.

    Hanno Kesting, Geschichtsphilosophie und Weltbürgerkrieg, Heidelberg: Winter, 1959, p. 261.

  11. 11.

    Carl Schmitt, Die Einheit der Welt (1951), in: Carl Schmitt, Frieden oder Pazifismus? Arbeiten zum Völkerrecht und zur internationalen Politik 1924- 1978, Berlin: Duncker&Humblot, 2005, p. 843.

  12. 12.

    Cf. Christian Hacke, Die Ära Nixon- Kissinger 1969-1974. Konservative Reform der Weltpolitik, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1983.

  13. 13.

    Jürgen Osterhammel, Weltordnungskonzepte, op. cit., p. 410.

  14. 14.

    Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man, New York: Free Press, 1992, p. 51.

  15. 15.

    Charles Krauthammer, The Unipolar Moment, in: Foreign Affairs Vol.70/No. 1 (1990/1991), pp. 23–33; William C. Wolforth, The Stability of a Unipolar World in: International Security, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1999), pp. 5–41.

  16. 16.

    John Mearsheimer, Back to the Future, Instability in Europe after the Cold War, in: International Security No. 15 (1990), pp. 5–56; Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  17. 17.

    George Herbert Walker Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 1991, online at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=19253, http://millercenter.org/president/bush/speeches/speech-3429 (last accessed 28.11.2017).

  18. 18.

    Dean Acheson, This Vast External Realm, New York: Norton, 1973, p. 35.

  19. 19.

    Cf. Robert W. Tucker/David C. Hendrickson, The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America’s Purpose, New York: New York University Press, 1992, p. 192–211.

  20. 20.

    According to Reinhard Rode, Noch ist der Westen nicht verloren in: WeltTrends No. 86, September/October 2012, p. 58.

  21. 21.

    Jürgen Osterhammel, Weltordnungskonzepte, op. cit., p. 411.

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Hacke, C. (2019). World Order. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90382-8_40

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