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Narine reviews ASIAN SECURITY ORDER: Instrumental and Normative Features edited by Muthiah Alagappa.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Framing the Question -- 1.2 The Puzzle of Global Normative Order(s) -- 1.3 An Ontological Inquiry -- 1.4 Structure of the Argument -- References -- 2 Order: From Social Cohesion to Global Disorder -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Question of Social Cohesion -- 2.2.1 Possible Foundations for Social Order -- 2.2.2 Two Traditions of Theories of Social Order -- 2.2.3 The Problem of Foundationalist Explanations of Social Order -- 2.2.4 Question of Disorder -- 2.3 Question of Global Society -- 2.3.1 Meaning of 'the Global' -- 2.3.2 Limits of IR Theory: Global Cohesion or Global Disorder -- 2.4 Dimensions of the Problem of Global Normative Order(s) -- References -- 3 Difference: Metaphysics of the Social -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Question of Difference -- 3.3 Postfoundational Political Thought -- 3.3.1 Ontological Difference: The Heideggerian Approach -- 3.3.1.1 Difference, Being, and Nothing -- 3.3.1.2 Being and Ground -- 3.3.2 Political Difference: The Laclauian Approach -- 3.3.2.1 Difference, Antagonism, and Identity -- 3.3.2.2 The Political and Ground -- 3.4 Politicization of the Social -- 3.4.1 Sedimentation of the Social and Reactivation of the Political -- 3.4.2 Undecidable Decision and the Limits of Change -- References -- 4 Hauntology of Global Normative Order(s) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Ordering and Global Order(s): Universal Investment of the Particular -- 4.3 Antagonistic Global Identity: Radical Negativity and Symbolic Global Order -- 4.4 Global Normative Order: The Imperative of the Abyssal Ground -- References -- 5 Conclusion: The (Im)Possibility of Global Normative Order(s) -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Fränze Wilhelm's book is one of the rare studies in International Relations (IR) employing post-foundational theories to grasp the prospect of a global normative order. The combination of philosophical vocabulary with IR literatures is brilliant, making this book a must-read for students and scholars in various fields of the social sciences and humanities. While it does not develop the contours of a positive global normative order, it certainly succeeds in unveiling the complexities of globally articulated relations of difference. Only a handful of books in IR show a similar degree of innovation and rigorousness!" --Prof. Dr. Dirk Nabers, University of Kiel (Germany) "'Political Difference and Global Normative Orders' provides an excellent discussion of the current scholarship on the question of order and difference. The author, by resorting to the post-foundational approach of hauntology, makes a valuable contribution to the study of order in IR and beyond." --Dr. David Shim, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) Once considered a question of an international order based on consolidated statehood and homogeneous social communities within national borders, global order has become a question of alternative political articulations, resistance movements, and cultural diversity, among others. This book first analyzes critically the conditions for the struggles of theorizing global normative order in political and IR theory. Second, to make sense of the presence of difference and possibility for global normative order in view of the simultaneous absence of first foundations, the study draws on post-foundational thinking based on the seminal work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau. Finally, the author develops a theoretical framework for a hauntological approach to global normative order that provides an alternative and theoretically coherent explanation for the emergence of global order. This is of interest to scholars as well as practitioners (including activists) concerned with global social relations, global political discourse, and the construction of global identity and normative order(s). Fränze Wilhelm is a doctoral candidate at the Kiel University Research Group on International Political Sociology.

This article analyses states' support for international norms relating to the location of international boundaries. The key norms relate to the legitimacy of the international use of force, the placement of boundaries relative to previous international boundary accords, the views of populations, and broadly accepted ethical standards. These norms have become stronger over recent centuries, but their relative strength has varied. In comparing the influence of these norms in territorial disputes, this study aims to contribute to the understanding of international territorial politics and of the evolution of state sovereignty. Of particular note is that self-determination and human rights have achieved some modest but historically significant gains since the end of the Cold War. Adapted from the source document.

En este trabajo se analiza la idea de justicia como principio inspirador de buen gobierno y, de cómo ha evolucionado. La estrecha relación actual entre orden y justicia, ha supuesto la aparición de un paradigma democrático que tiene más que ver con las ideas de estabilidad y seguridad que con la idea de justicia. Tal circunstancia ha desembocado en una utopía normativa en la que orden y justicia, libertad y seguridad, se oponen entre sí en detrimento de la pluralidad política y de los espacios participativos. ; Abstract: This paper analyzes the idea of Justice as an inspiring principle of good government as well as the historical evolution of this principle. The very strong relationship between order and justice has fostered the emergence of a democratic paradigm that is focused more on the ideas of stability and security than on the very original idea of justice. Such circumstance has been a main factor in the proposal of a normative utopia in which order and justice, liberty and security are in tension, even in opposition with political pluralism and its need of participative spaces.