Description
A central question to scholars and policymakers alike regarding the more regionalized, fragmented, and intersecting orders that have been arising from the gradual decline of the liberal international order is how to deal with the temporal multiplexity. The order transition debate has been predominantly spatial in orientation and has yet to fully understand the temporal aspects of the emerging global order. By shifting focus to the emerging temporal orders and how they relate to and challenge the temporality of the liberal international order, we show how different temporalities cut across power and normative centres, as well as constituencies across regions —in particular in the temporal peripheries of the world that were long cast as ‘behind’, ‘liberalizing’, ‘modernizing’ and ‘catching up’ within the liberal international order. We draw out implications of the decline of liberal temporalities and the emergence of multiplex futures for foreign and security policy.
