Systemic change in the Old World Order
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2019

The collapse of the Bipolar World Order in the late 1980s and the transformation in the world system opened a historical opportunity for systemic change in ECE. This chapter defines the Old World Order and New World Order as major periods of the world system, with the rise of the New World Order following the global crisis. These world systems have given the international frame of ECE developments in two stages, with a big turning point in Europeanization and democratization around 2010 from cha