John Gray, Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and the author of the book under review should not be confused with the John Gray who thinks that men are from Mars and women from Venus. Our man is a political philosopher, best known for a string of books on liberalism and a lot less sanguine about the prospects for humanity than his New Age namesake. In fact, perhaps ...

Abstract In their critique of liberal modernity, classical realists theorized its consequence for the heightened sense insecurity and powerlessness individual on one hand, individual's identification with extreme nationalism violence other. This became challenge posed by modernity in post-1945 international order. The article argues that present order is an extension never resolved this challen...