This volume attempts an assessment of whether the liberal order will succumb to its contestations or undergo a process of adaptation and transformation. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in The International Spectator.

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali of Rome, Italy. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and is a European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Fellow. He holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany.

1. The Liberal Order and its Contestations. A Conceptual Framework Riccardo Alcaro 2. Diversity Management: Regionalism and the Future of the International Order Giovanni Grevi 3. Present at the Destruction? The Liberal Order in the Trump Era John Peterson 4. The EU and the Global Order: Contingent Liberalism Michael H. Smith and Richard Youngs 5. Global Reordering and China's Rise: Adoption, Adaptation and Reform Shaun Breslin 6. Russia's Neorevisionist Challenge to the Liberal International Order Tatiana Romanova 7. India's Role in a Liberal Post-Western World Samir Saran 8. Lost in Transition: The Liberal International Order in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus Laure Delcour 9. The Middle East's Troubled Relationship with the Liberal International Order Paul Salem 10. Order and Contestation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Liberal vs Developmental/Non-interventionist Approaches Richard Stubbs 11. Contestation and Transformation. Final Thoughts on the Liberal International Order Riccardo Alcaro