Beyond Liberal Order
Lieven, Anatol / Verhoeven, Harry
What does liberal order actually amount to outside the West, where it has been most institutionalised? Contrary to the Atlantic or Pacific, liberal hegemony is thin in the Indian Ocean World, there are no equivalents of NATO, the EU or the US-Japan defence relationship.Yet what this book calls the `Global Indian Ocean¿ was the beating heart of earlier epochs of globalisation, where experiments in international order, market integration and cos...