Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Have we arrived to a New World Disorder? Well, the UK is not any more a stabilising power in Europe, and the US has stopped functioning as stabiliser in the global system. Behind these structural changes we find the manyfold failures of neoliberal economics. In the footsteps of Keynes, Polanyi and Habermas, Heikki Patomäki uncovers the causes and dynamics of these complex crises, but also identifies the keys of a progressive project that can save the legacy of enlightenment and democratic politics in Europe, as well as the world system, and help finding the way back to social progress.- László Andor, Former EU Commissionner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

• 1. Introduction: the world falling apart 2. Brexit and the causes of European disintegration 3. EU, Russia and the conflict in Ukraine 4. Trumponomics and the dynamics of global disintegration 5. Piketty’s fundamental inequality r > g: the key to understanding and overcoming the causes of disintegration 6. Conclusion: holoreflexivity and the shape of things to come

Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Have we arrived to a New World Disorder? Well, the UK is not any more a stabilising power in Europe, and the US has stopped functioning as stabiliser in the global system. Behind these structural changes we find the manyfold failures of neoliberal economics. In the footsteps of Keynes, Polanyi and Habermas, Heikki Patomäki uncovers the causes and dynamics of these complex crises, but also identifies the keys of a progressive project that can save the legacy of enlightenment and democratic politics in Europe, as well as the world system, and help finding the way back to social progress.- László Andor, Former EU Commissionner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

• 1. Introduction: the world falling apart 2. Brexit and the causes of European disintegration 3. EU, Russia and the conflict in Ukraine 4. Trumponomics and the dynamics of global disintegration 5. Piketty’s fundamental inequality r > g: the key to understanding and overcoming the causes of disintegration 6. Conclusion: holoreflexivity and the shape of things to come