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Der Westen gibt sich überkommenen Illusionen hin, und er strahlt nicht mehr. Für andere Allianzen ist ein anderes Verständnis von Zentrum und Peripherie vonnöten, mehr Offenheit, Demut und weniger Halbherzigkeit. Von der Suche nach einer neuen freien Welt. (IP)

A recent wave of scholarship attests that the liberal world order is under threat. Although there is disagreement about the underlying reasons for this diagnosis, there are few attempts to further our understanding of how the liberal order can be reinvigorated. This paper probes the potential of blockchain technology to promote international cooperation. Blockchain technology is a data structure that enables global governance stakeholders to establish decentralized governance systems which provide high-powered incentives for enhanced cooperation. By outlining the contours of a blockchain-based global governance system for climate policy, the paper illustrates that blockchain technology holds theoretical promise to foster cooperation in three ways: leveraging new sources of information through blockchain-based prediction markets; allaying coordinating problems through reducing the cost of transactions for side payments; and allowing states and other global governance actors to make more credible commitments given guaranteed execution of blockchain-enabled smart contracts. By empowering local knowledge holders and non-state actors that traditionally lacked the means to coordinate efforts to influence global politics, blockchain technology also promises to advance an international order based on liberal values. In actuality, however, emerging blockchain-based global governance systems will fall short of the libertarian ideal of 'fully-automated liberalism' as their design and operation will remain under the shadow of power.

Is the Western alliance, which brought together the United States and Europe after World War II, in an inevitable state of decline, and if so, can anything be done to repair it? There seems little doubt that fragmentation of the Western alliance was under way even before Donald Trump's unorthodox policymaking broadened the schism. Opinions differ as to the next step, however, with some taking the current divisions as a given and advocating the creation of a new group of like-minded democracies that would exclude the United States, while others seek to exploit the rift in hopes of furthering their own nationalistic ambitions for a postliberal world. The authors outline a "transatlantic renaissance," in which U.S. and European leaders would work together to craft a new Atlantic Charter that would restore the liberal objectives that animated the Western alliance for more than seven decades. Modernizing institutional relationships across the Atlantic should help both the United States and Europe address common challenges jointly and improve burdensharing. The world needs a vibrant and energetic West to protect fundamental values from illiberal forces, both internal and external.

Frieden und Recht bilden einen komplexen Zusammenhang. International schafft das Recht wichtige Rahmenbedingungen für die Begrenzung von Gewalt, ist im Völkerrecht sogar das Gewaltverbot verankert. Dennoch bleiben gewalttätige, kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen Realität. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellen sich auch Anfragen an das Konzept "Frieden durch Recht". Dieses wird im Band kritisch reflektiert und weitergedacht. Wie tragfähig ist dieses liberale Modell, welche Anfragen und Herausforderungen stellen sich in der Gegenwart? Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen sich diese Fragen aus evangelischer, katholischer, philosophischer rechtswissenschaftlicher und rechtsphilosophischer Perspektive.

Die Renaissance des Imperialismuskonzeptes scheint eine Reaktion auf gegenwärtige weltpolitische Gegebenheiten zu sein. Dennoch scheit dies immer Kern des liberalen Strömungen in den Internationalen Beziehungen (IB) gewesen zu sein. Liberaler Internationalismus geht auf Immanuel Kant zurück und man findet an zentraler Stelle sowohl das Sicherheitsdilemma zwischen liberalen und autoritären Staaten als auch bevorzugende Gesetzgebung mit privilegierendem Charakter in gemeinwohlem Gewand. Diese unkantischen Ausführungen haben in John Stuart Mill einen klassischen Vorläufer, mit dem sie imperialistischen Rechtfertigungen teilen. Historisch sensible Lektüre von sowohl Kant als auch Mill kann das Versagen der Verbreitung von liberalem Institutionen genauso erklären wie die Fähigkeit zur Reduzierung internationaler Konflikte

For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism's long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today's fractured political moment. Creating an international "space" for liberal democracy, preserving rights and protections within and between countries, and balancing conflicting values such as liberty and equality, openness and social solidarity, and sovereignty and interdependence - these are the guiding aims that have propelled liberal internationalism through the upheavals of the past two centuries. G. John Ikenberry argues that in a twenty-first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence, liberal internationalism - reformed and reimagined - remains the most viable project to protect liberal democracy.

This study provides an original conception of liberalism that accounts for its internal contradictions and explains the current crisis of liberal internationalism. Examining the disjuncture between liberal theory and practice, it offers a firmer grasp on the historical role of liberalism in world politics.