Contestations of Liberal Order

Marko Lehti is Professor at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on peace mediation and dialogues, crises of liberal peace, transformation of identities, and the idea of Nordic peace. His recent publication is The Era of Private Peacemakers (Palgrave 2019).Henna-Riikka Pennanen is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Her research focuses on the United States–East Asia relations in the past and present.Jukka Jouhki is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the Director of The West Network endorsing multidisciplinary research on ‘the West’. His research focuses on communities and their identities.

• 1. Introduction: Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen, Jukka Jouhki.- 2. Beyond Liberal Empire and Peace — Declining Hegemony of the West?: Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen.- 3. Crises of the West — Liberal Identities and Ontological (In)Security: Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen.- 4. From Identification to Division — Contesting the Unity of the West from Within: Johanna Vuorelma.- 5. The West — Divided in Freedom and Fear?: Ville Sinkkonen, Henri Vogt.- 6. Coming Out Against Islam — The Weaponisation of Tolerance in the Liberal West: Roderick McGlynn.- 7. The Contested Open Society — German Political Establishment and the New Right: Ann-Judith Rabenschlag.- 8. Imagining the West in the Era of America First: Henna-Riikka Pennanen, Anna Kronlund.- 9.  Resilience of the Humanitarian Narrative in United States Foreign Policy: Noora Kotilainen.- 10. Confrontational Civilizational Identityin the Making? The New Turkey and the West:Toni Alaranta.- 11. Russian Radical Conservative Challenge to the Liberal Global Order: Jussi Backman.- 12. A Non-World — Chinese Perceptions of the Western International Order: Matti Puranen.- 13. Balancing Between Narratives of the West and Hindu Nationalism in Emerging India: Jukka Jouhki