Current world history has disconfirmed liberal post-Cold War predictions of long lasting peace. Interstate wars and furious mass violence are back, and we have entered a new perilous era of competition between 'great powers'
About The Author
Philip Golub is Professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris (AUP). His research focuses on the state, globalization, and empire in late-modern and contemporary international history. He obtained his MPhil (DEA) in International Relations and Contemporary History at University of Paris IV and his DPhil in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Prior to AUP, he taught at the Institute of European Studies, University of Paris 8, and in the graduate program of Sciences-Po Paris, as well as lecturing regularly in other institutions of higher learning. He has published East Asia's Reemergence (Polity Press, 2016) and Power, Profit and Prestige: a History of American Imperial Expansion (Pluto Press, 2010), which was translated into French and Chinese, as well as dozens of book chapters and scholarly articles on various issue-areas of world politics. He is also a prolific author in media such as Le monde diplomatique.