Cosmopolitan Dystopia: International Intervention and the Failure of the West

by Philip Cunliffe

Book Overview

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. Cosmopolitan Dystopia explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented demands for military action, thereby trapping us in a loop of endless war. Attempts to normalize humanitarian emergency through the doctrine of the 'responsibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152610573X
• ISBN13: 9781526105738
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"