Das Ende der Imitation oder ein neuer Klassenkonflikt? Zwei paradigmatische Erklärungen für die Krise der liberalen Weltordnung

Willms, Kai Johann (2021): Das Ende der Imitation oder ein neuer Klassenkonflikt? Zwei paradigmatische Erklärungen für die Krise der liberalen Weltordnung. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Bd. 47, Nr. 2: S. 320-337

Abstract

In light of global electoral successes of right-wing populists, over the past decade the idea of a linear progress towards liberal democracy as a globally dominant form of government has lost much of its credibility. Does the rise of illiberal political movements result from the decline of Western hegemony, that is, from a refusal of nonWestern cultures to imitate theWest? Or is it the expression of a global, open-ended conflict between the cosmopolitanism of a new middle class and the communitarianism of those who consider themselves the losers of globalization? This article argues that instead of replacing modernization theory with cultural essentialism, we should opt for a praxeological paradigm that acknowledges both cultural heterogeneity and historical contingency.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
• ISSN: 0340-613X
• Sprache: Deutsch