The Once and Future World Order

The epic history of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for its future.
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, po ...

The epic history of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for its future.
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers - especially China - threaten to unravel today's Western-led world order. Many fear this would lead to global chaos. But this is a Western illusion.
Surveying five thousand years of global history, political scientist Amitav Acharya reveals that world order existed long before the rise of the West. Moving from ancient Sumer, India, Greece