Nicos P. Mouzelis is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively in the fields of historical sociology, sociology of organizations, sociology of development and social theory He is the author of Modernity: Religious and Ethical Perspectives (2021).Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He serves on the editorial board of the academic journals South European Society and Politics, Journal of Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

In this book Mouzelis and Sotiropoulos challenge the current orthodoxy on social democracy, neo-liberalism, and authoritarian capitalism in an original and mind-bending proposal for a new global governance to replace the struggling international system and its malfunctioning institutions. With a penetrating analysis of the current literature on so-called “Alternatives” this is a book that students, journalists, and professional politicians will find both original and unbelievable.

• IntroductionPart One: The General FrameworkCh. 1: Before the 21st CenturyCh. 2: The Coming Collapse of Capitalism?Ch. 3: Global Capitalism and its Three Subsystems. Convergence?Part Two: The USA-China relationsCh. 4: The Rise of ChinaCh. 5: The American ReactionCh. 6: Globalisation: Hegemony or a Global Trilateral Co-Governance?Part Three: Social democracy 2.0: From the National to the International LevelCh. 7: The Golden Years – Social Democracy 1.0Ch. 8: Crises: Economic and PandemicCh. 9: Social Democracy 2.0Ch. 10: The Future of Democracy and of Social DemocracyConclusionReferences

Nicos P. Mouzelis is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively in the fields of historical sociology, sociology of organizations, sociology of development and social theory He is the author of Modernity: Religious and Ethical Perspectives (2021).Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He serves on the editorial board of the academic journals South European Society and Politics, Journal of Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

In this book Mouzelis and Sotiropoulos challenge the current orthodoxy on social democracy, neo-liberalism, and authoritarian capitalism in an original and mind-bending proposal for a new global governance to replace the struggling international system and its malfunctioning institutions. With a penetrating analysis of the current literature on so-called “Alternatives” this is a book that students, journalists, and professional politicians will find both original and unbelievable.

• IntroductionPart One: The General FrameworkCh. 1: Before the 21st CenturyCh. 2: The Coming Collapse of Capitalism?Ch. 3: Global Capitalism and its Three Subsystems. Convergence?Part Two: The USA-China relationsCh. 4: The Rise of ChinaCh. 5: The American ReactionCh. 6: Globalisation: Hegemony or a Global Trilateral Co-Governance?Part Three: Social democracy 2.0: From the National to the International LevelCh. 7: The Golden Years – Social Democracy 1.0Ch. 8: Crises: Economic and PandemicCh. 9: Social Democracy 2.0Ch. 10: The Future of Democracy and of Social DemocracyConclusionReferences

Nicos P. Mouzelis is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively in the fields of historical sociology, sociology of organizations, sociology of development and social theory He is the author of Modernity: Religious and Ethical Perspectives (2021).Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He serves on the editorial board of the academic journals South European Society and Politics, Journal of Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

In this book Mouzelis and Sotiropoulos challenge the current orthodoxy on social democracy, neo-liberalism, and authoritarian capitalism in an original and mind-bending proposal for a new global governance to replace the struggling international system and its malfunctioning institutions. With a penetrating analysis of the current literature on so-called “Alternatives” this is a book that students, journalists, and professional politicians will find both original and unbelievable.

• IntroductionPart One: The General FrameworkCh. 1: Before the 21st CenturyCh. 2: The Coming Collapse of Capitalism?Ch. 3: Global Capitalism and its Three Subsystems. Convergence?Part Two: The USA-China relationsCh. 4: The Rise of ChinaCh. 5: The American ReactionCh. 6: Globalisation: Hegemony or a Global Trilateral Co-Governance?Part Three: Social democracy 2.0: From the National to the International LevelCh. 7: The Golden Years – Social Democracy 1.0Ch. 8: Crises: Economic and PandemicCh. 9: Social Democracy 2.0Ch. 10: The Future of Democracy and of Social DemocracyConclusionReferences