Vittorio Emanuele Parsi is Professor of International Relations at Università Cattolica (Milan, Italy) and Director of ASERI (Graduate School of Economics and International Relations).
The ‘Liberal World Order’ (LWO) is today in crisis. But what explains this crisis? Whereas its critics see it as the unmasking of Western hypocrisy, its longstanding proponents argue it is under threat by competing illiberal projects. This book takes a different stance: neither internal hypocrisy, nor external attacks explain the decline of the LWO – a deviation from its original lane does.