Copyright © Oliver Stuenkel 2016

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First published in 2016 by Polity Press

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Names: Stuenkel, Oliver, author.

Title: Post-western world : how emerging powers are remaking global order / Oliver Stuenkel.

Description: Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016005450| ISBN 9781509504565 (hardcover : alk. paper) |

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I would like to thank my undergraduate, graduate, and executive students at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as the many exchange students from all over the world who greatly contributed to this book through their comments and critiques during our discussions.

Special thanks go to Amitav Acharya for his support. This book would not have come to fruition without him. In the same way, the encouragement of Louise Knight and Nekane Tanaka Galdos of Polity Press was crucial throughout the writing process.

Over the past year, I have been able to discuss the ideas here exposed in a variety of settings, and I thank Sumit Ganguly at the University of Indiana in Bloomington for inviting me for a great discussion. Raffaele Marchetti was a wonderful host during my time as a visiting professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) in Rome, where I had time to write and present my research. Renato Baumann of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in Brasília kindly asked me to be part of the Brazilian delegation to the BRICS Academic Forum in Moscow, where I had the chance to hear useful comments, particularly from Russian policy makers and my friends at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi. Paula Almeida invited me to discuss my research at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro. Robin Niblett invited me to the London Conference at Chatham House, offering a great opportunity to discuss my ideas with policy makers from around the world. Tom Carothers and Richard Youngs, who coordinate the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network, to which I belong, organized three terrific meetings in Bali, São Paulo, and Brussels, allowing me to discuss some of the ideas in this book with former policy makers and academics. Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer of the French Foreign Ministry invited me to participate in a great discussion at Sciences Po in Paris.

Thorsten Benner at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), where I am a nonresident Fellow, provided great support, useful advice, and a leafy balcony in Berlin to work on this book. Marcos Tourinho, Alan Alexandroff, Alexandre Moreli, João Marcelo Maia, and Elena Lazaro gave very useful comments on several occasions. Matias Spektor, my colleague in São Paulo, provided guidance, moral support, and inspiration, on things both RI and non-RI throughout. Margarita Kostkova and Al Montero kindly read and commented on the manuscript. I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers at Polity Press. I alone, however, am responsible for any shortcomings of the work.

I owe a special debt of gratitude to Joice Barbaresco, Guísela Pereira, Ana Patrícia Silva, Eun Hye Kim, Leandro Silvestrini, João Teófilo, and Allan Greicon for their research support and for keeping our São Paulo office up and running. I would also like to thank Celso Castro for his support and encouragement over the past five years.

Marita and Hélio Pedreira provided a great place to write (and rest) in Maresias, as did Marielza and Marcelo Della Costa in Nova Friburgo.

Several other people have been immensely important—mostly in dragging me away from my desk—namely Seth Kugel, Leandro Piquet, Flavia Goulart, Andrew Downie, Hanna Meirelles, Fabio Rubio, Patrick Schlieper, my sisters, and my parents. My wife Beatriz was amazingly supportive, as always, commented on several parts of the book, and her working hours are a comforting reminder that political activism is sometimes even more demanding than academia. This book is dedicated to Anna, Jan, and Carlinha, the three newest members of our family, who will grow up in a post-Western world.