Whose World Order?

Russia's Perception of American Ideas after the Cold War

Andrei P. Tsygankov

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780268042295, 9780268042288
• eBook ISBN: 9780268160487
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In Whose World Order? Andrei P. Tsygankov examines how Russian elites engage American ideas of world order and why Russians perceive these ideas as unlikely to promote a just or stable international system. Tsygankov focuses on Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis, which argues for the global ascendancy of Western-style market democracy, and Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations," which drew attention to what Huntington perceived to be an increasingly dominant global disorder. Tsygankov argues that Russian intellectuals received the ideas of these two prominent American scholars critically. Tsygankov traces the reasons for Russian perceptions to the ethnocentric nature of the two sets of ideas and the inability of their authors to fully appreciate Russia's distinctive historical, geopolitical, and institutional perspectives.

Throughout this rich study Tsygankov points to the need for scholars to study cultural perceptions in world politics as a means of eliminating some of the obstacles that stand in the way of a truly global society. He also raises the issue of whether or not intellectuals should accept moral responsibility for the ideas they produce and what implications this may have for international relations theory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on the Transliteration
• List of Tables
• 1. Introduction: Whose World Order?
• 2. World Order: Ideas, Perception, and Responsibility
• 3. Russia: The Foreign Policy Community and Schools of Thought
• 4. The Triumph of Liberalism? Debating Francis Fukuyama’s "End of History" Thesis
• 5. Clash of Civilizations? The Reception of Samuel Huntington's Project
• 6. The World Order after September 11
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index