A World in Transition

This path-breaking study examines the profound reconfiguration of the postwarliberal international order driven by America's apparent retreat from global leadershipEurope's strategic dilemmas and rising great power competition. Focusing onU.S. and European responses to challenges like the Trump administration'sAmerica First policies the rise of Chinese power Russian aggression andthe erosion of multilateral institutions Bluth analyses how security tradeand political structures are adapting. This book argues that the global orderis not simply collapsing or fragmenting as some accounts have suggestedbut undergoing a more complex process of contested continuity.