Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism

Reviews / Votes

The world has changed in many ways in the decade since the global financial crisis. Instead of seeing a liberalism in temporary retreat, Blaney and Inayatullah ask whether liberalism was ever as secure as either a political or an intellectual project as its advocates have traditionally made out. If, as they say, doubts about the liberal world were endemic to the earliest proto-liberal theorists, then we need to know much more about the content of those doubts if we are to make sense of the world in which we find ourselves today. -- Matthew Watson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism analyzes and reflects on the tensions and contradictions within liberalism - and demonstrates how these tensions work themselves out in their methodological and political implications for IR and IPE. It thus speaks directly to the current crisis of the liberal world order and provides excellent resources to reflect on this crisis and to address it in the social sciences. -- Beate Jahn, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex, and President of the European International Studies Association (EISA) Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism is the latest in a string of works by two of IPE's most careful and thoughtful scholars. The rich menu of engagement provides much food for thought, and the result is a highly productive encounter with the tradition of (international) political economy. This is a long overdue contribution to IPE scholarship that will certainly pay many dividends in years to come. * E-International Relations *