{"product_id":"9789819213696","title":"The Great Interregnum America, China, and the Time of Troubles","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Great Interregnum\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAmerica, China, and the Time of Troubles\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSam-Sang Jo\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ International Relations \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eThis book addresses a fundamental puzzle: how should we understand the present historical moment? Is China poised to displace the United States as the architect of global order? Can its state-centric model attain the universal influence once exercised by American liberal democracy? And can the United States renew itself—internally and externally—to halt what appears to be a period of profound normative decay? The book advances a central claim: we are living through a great interregnum—\u003cem\u003eluanshi\u003c\/em\u003e, a “time of troubles” marking the interval between the twilight of a dominant ideology and the uncertain dawn of another. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eOffering a comprehensive analysis of U.S.-China power competition through a constructivist lens, the book argues that values, ideologies, and cultural frameworks are constitutive of international order rather than subordinate to material capabilities. Power transitions, in this perspective, are not simply redistributions of relative strength; they are struggles over legitimacy, authority, and the moral grammar of global governance.\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBy tracing the trajectories of American liberal democracy and socialism with Chinese characteristics, the book situates contemporary rivalry within a broader theory of ideological cycles and world revolution. Drawing on the Lasswellian concept of world revolution, it characterizes the present era as one defined by fragmentation, contestation, and normative uncertainty—an interregnum in which neither model\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-fareast-language: KO;\"\u003e nor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eideology commands uncontested hegemony. Through an integrated theoretical and historical framework, the book moves beyond diagnosing the current crisis of international order to recalibrate prevailing conceptual frameworks and expand the analytical horizons through which its structural transformation is interpreted and assessed by scholars, journalists, and policymakers alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-language: JA;\"\u003eSam-Sang Jo is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"\u003ea lecturer at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and has held visiting scholar appointments at the University of Cambridge, the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Fudan University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Francisco de Vitoria University, and the University of Tokyo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819213696\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e491\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47757083607180,"sku":"9789819213696","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819213696.jpg?v=1781089371","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789819213696","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}