China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order
By Dawn C. Murphy
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2022, 408 pages, $85.00, ISBN: 9781503630093
Russia after 2020: Looking Ahead after Two Decades of Putin
By J. Laurence Black
New York: Routledge, 2021, 421 pages, £145.00, ISBN: 9780367745943
Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars
By Ofira Seliktar and Farhad Rezaei
Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £84.99, ISBN: 9783030294175
Discussions on monopolar and multipolar world order started after the Cold War. World order may generally categorize global norms that support international power balance and hierarchy.1 When the American order had frequent crises after the Cold War, alternative world order discussions were re-triggered. These three works can help us interpret the effects of China, Russia, and Iran on the international system and guide us in understanding the discussions about the alternative world order.
