World Order and Civilization Hierarchy: New Approaches to Global History Research
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Over the past decade or so, capitalist globalization has been accompanied by a re-emphasis on civilizational identity, once again highlighting enduring civilizational and historical issues. The book "World Order and Civilization Hierarchy" traces its roots and studies these issues. It reveals how the world order dominated by European and American countries was formed in the past five hundred years, and how "Western" civilization elevated its political organization and knowledge form to universal standards. The spatiotemporal hierarchy set by these standards places stateless societies such as Africa and Oceania (and other indigenous peoples) as "outside", defines Asian societies as "semi-civilized", and capitalist societies in Europe and North America as civilized. As the editor-in-chief of this book points out in the preface, this set of civilizational standards evolved into the self-understanding of people around the world in the 20th century. Nowadays, the hegemony of European and American countries has begun to face challenges, and their status as civilizational hegemony has been questioned again. Along with this, people are calling for a future world order.
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