Gürcan, Efe Can and Otero, Gerardo (2024) The conjunctural analysis of multipolarity: bridging the bottom-up and top-down dynamics. St Antony's International Review, 19 (1). pp. 32-62. ISSN 1746-451X (In Press)
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Multipolarity, rising amid the crisis of neoliberal globalism, presents a critical area of study to understand the dramatic recon guration of world politics since the 2000s. In this article, we use conjunctural analysis to explore the origins and main catalysts of multipolarity. Conjunctural analysis is a holistic and context-sensitive approach to understand the dialectical interplay between various social, political, and economic dynamics. What are the key factors driving the emergence of multipolarity as a dominant trend in the international system, and how do the complications arising from these factors in uence its specific shape? To answer these questions, we trace the emergence of multipolarity to the hegemonic crisis of neoliberal capitalism in the 1990s, a period defined by the convergence of US unilateralism and economic instabilities. Chief ramifications of this hegemonic crisis are observable at two distinct yet interconnected levels. First, at the grassroots/bottom-up level, neoliberal failures have been met with the ascent of the Latin American left and the alterglobalisation movement since the 1990s, alongside the rise of the far-right worldwide throughout the 2020s. Second, at the interstate level, the breakdown of the global governance system has been met by the rise of South-South cooperation. These factors contribute to a "post-hegemonic" moment, a process characterized by profound contradictions and uncertainties, both globally and on the national scale. Our major contribution lies in proposing a conjunctural understanding and a dual-layered conceptualization of multipolarity that integrates both top-down geopolitical dynamics and bottom-up processes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Ingenta |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2025 14:21 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2025 14:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127411 |
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