“The Rise of the Civilisational State: China, Russia and Islamic Caliphate and the challenge to the liberal world order” with Christopher Coker

Berlin, 7 November 2019: Christopher Coker, professor of International Relations at LSE, director of LSE IDEAS and author of “The Rise of the Civilisational State: China, Russia and Islamic Caliphate and the Challenge to the Liberal World Order” joined the DOC last night for our Meet in Mitte Event Series.
Coker very eloquently discussed the growing trend of framing issues in “civilisational language”, which inherently leads to confrontational interaction along a new geopolitical fault line, one of culture. Russia and China being the eminent examples of entities portraying themselves as civilisation states, pitting themselves culturally in opposition to “the West”, …

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