1. Introduction: Envisioning International Order in an Age of Global Contestation
Part1: The Superpower Contenders
2. The United States and Lost Visions of International Order in a World of Great-Power Competition
3. Chinese Vision for a Durable Security Order in an Era of Great Power Competition: The Global Security Initiative
Part2: Status Quo Powers
4. The EU’s Evolving Vision for the International Order: From Liberal Beacon to Competitive Pole
5. France’s Ordering Visions: Independence, History, and Countering the Logic of Blocs
6. Germany’s Vision for International Order in the Era of Zeitenwende: No More Kantian Dreams?
7. The United Kingdom’s Post-Brexit Ordering Vision
8. The Japanese Vision of World Order
Part3: Revisionists and Post-Westernisers
9. India as a Pivotal State Shaping a Post-Western World: From Periphery to Centre
10. Brazilian Competing Ordering Visions: Destined to Become a Great Power?
11. South Africa’s Vision of “A Better Africa and World”
12. The Ordering Vision of Turkey’s AKP Regime: A Regional Centre State?
13. Saudi Arabia’s Balancing Act in the Shifting Sands of the Middle East
14. A Critical View of Iran’s Vision to Global Order
15. Russia’s Vision of a Multipolar World and the Sovereign “State-Civilisation”
16. Conclusions: Comparing Visions, Fathoming Orders