Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals is 40 years old in 2023, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of CIDOB itself. With that in mind, we are publishing this special issue of our journal, entitled “The international order: more geopolitical or more plural?” It offers a close-up view of the current state of the paradigm shift in international relations. The monograph opens with a review of the development of this area of study over the last four decades. It goes on to explore aspects such as the crisis of democracy and of the liberal international order, the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China, the reshaping of global value chains, the climate agenda, tech diplomacy, and the Asian outlook on the international order, as well as the concept of “planetary politics” and the influence of cities as international actors. In the appendix, an infographic charts the journal’s development over its 40-year history.
Esther Barbé
Order in transition and rules under challenge
Richard Youngs
Democracy, global order and the war in Ukraine
Alicia García Herrero
Reshuffling of global value chains: United States-China rivalry and the role of the EU
Cristina Monge
Governance of the climate agenda: complex, polycentric and fraught with imperfections
Manuel Muñiz
Technology diplomacy for the digital era
Seán Golden
A perspective from Asia on the global order: the importance of global understanding
Sabine Selchow
Planetary politics: reviving the spirit of the concept of “global civil society”
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
The networked power of urban diplomacy in global governance
Book reviews (subjects)
Robert Kissack
Liberal democracies: a history of vulnerability and the constant search for security
Manuel Montobbio
Thinking about the world, embracing the world
Oriol Costa
The international order has rearguard problems too
Inés Arco Escriche
Rethinking international law through feminism in “posthuman” times
Claudia Rives Casanova
China Ltd: a new state model for the world?
Xavier Coller
Why do some people go into politics and others don’t?
Infographic annex
40th anniversary of Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals (1982/3-2023)
