Making sense of ınternational order(s): contending theories

The international order is a central theme that policymakers debate, advocate, and sometimes challenge in private or public. The concept is also often the subject of conspiracy theories that may dangerously influence public opinion on global issues such as migration, environment, and disease. Thus, it is important to understand why policymakers put international order on their agendas, why conspiracy theories are interested in the concept, and the essential meaning of international order. That initiative necessarily invites interested ones into the distinct universe of international theories. Fortunately, the books under review offer readers sophisticated, contested, but helpful theoretical frameworks, namely realism, liberalism, and constructivism, to which we can resort to understanding international order(s). This review article aims to bring these books together and illuminate how contending theories make sense of the concept and challenge each other.