Rise of the Civilizational State Coker ChristopherPaperback / softback
Rise of the Civilizational State Coker ChristopherPaperback / softback In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016…
Specifikacia Rise of the Civilizational State Coker ChristopherPaperback / softback
Rise of the Civilizational State Coker ChristopherPaperback / softback
In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world.Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. He also discusses the Islamic caliphate, a virtual and aspirational civilizational state that is unlikely to fade despite the recent setbacks suffered by ISIS. In this pioneering book, the renowned political philosopher Christopher Coker looks in depth at two countries that now claim this title: Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia.
For, while civilizations themselves may not clash, civilizational states appear to be set on challenging the rules of the international order that the West takes for The civilizational state, he contends, is an idea whose time has come.