A History of World Politics (three volumes)
This book series endeavors to provide a "new historiography" for the study of international issues. The proposed "world politics" paradigm focuses on the institutional changes of states driven by the world market and political ideologies, as well as the world order shaped thereby. As a theory of world politics rooted in China's traditional political civilization, Marxist world history theory, and the practice of the Communist Party of China, it is of great significance for disenchanting Western-centric international relations studies and constructing an autonomous Chinese knowledge system in political science. Comprising three volumes and nineteen chapters, the book is structured as follows: Volume One mainly examines the diverse landscape of world order before the 16th century. Rejecting the narrow perspective of Eurocentrism, it places European civilization on an equal footing with Confucian, Indian, and Islamic civilizations, and analyzes how different civilizational forms constructed regional world orders. Volume Two spans the 16th century to the mid-20th century, recounting the rise of the Western world and the formation of the modern Western-dominated world order—a historical structure from which we have not yet emerged. Volume Three focuses on various "counter-movements" against the liberal imperial world order since the 20th century, including socialist movements, national liberation movements, and diverse forms of resistance within Western countries. The rejuvenation of China heralds the emergence of a new world order.
Date：2026.04.03
