Great power rivalry and the weakening of collective hegemony: revisiting the relationship between international society and international order
Journal: Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Year: 2020

As Russia-West relations hit a post-Cold War low and a sterner Western approach toward China has become more manifest, great power rivalry appears to have returned. It is often assumed that these developments will have important consequences for the durability of the so-called ‘liberal international order’. This paper seeks to clarify precisely what the liberal international order is and how it relates to English School understandings of international society and international order. First will