BOOK REVIEW: Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics

Abstract

The number of academic papers criticizing the discipline of international relations (IR) for neglecting states and societies outside the core Western countries in the establishment, consolidation, and maintenance of international systems is steadily increasing. However, these texts focus considerably more on the marginalization of the non-Western world than on identifying its positive agency. Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics differs from these texts in that it focuses on the role of non-Western states, particularly postcolonial ones, in legitimizing and transforming the US-led Western international system into a genuinely global order.

Keywords

International Relations, Global Order, Agency, Change, World Politics

Citation

Husna Tas Yetim, Book Review “Amitav Acharya, Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018”, International Relations, Vol. 18, No. 72, 2021, pp. 109-111.

Affiliations

• Husna Tas YETIM, Dr., Guest Lecturer, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Department of Public Administration and Politics