This book is a synthesis of two separate bodies of thoughts, from Western and East Asian ideas and philosophies respectively. The authors deploy the major ideas of key Western and East Asian thinkers to shed a new light on their usefulness in understanding the transition of global order. They locate new ideas to overcome the contradictions of the late modern world and provide some ideational building blocks of a new global order. The new concepts proposed are: recognition between the great civilizations; a harmony and floating balance between and within contrasts-individual versus community, freedom versus equality-;and mediation between friends and foes.

Preface

Prologue: The Birth Pains of a New Global Order

Part 1: The Order War

1.The Order Wars in the Twenty-First Century

2.Between Lyotard and Hegel: Beyond Kant and the Binary Logic

3.The End of Western Modernity?

Part 2: Floating Balance

4.Clausewitz's 'Wondrous Trinity' and Floating Balance

5.Clausewitz, Polarity, and a Different Dialectics: A New Beginning

Part 3: Harmony

6.Harmony between Freedom and Equality

7.Confucian Harmony and East Asia's Mega-Discourses for Governance

Part 4: Recognition

8.Marx's Reversal of Hegel

9.Between Clausewitz and Hegel: Revitalizing the Struggle for Recognition

10.Between Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt: Mediation between Friends and Foes

Epilogue: Sharing Power in a New Global Order

Andreas Herberg-Rothe is Senior Lecturer at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Key-young Son is Humanities Korea Professor at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University