title: THEORIES OF WORLD ORDER TRANSITION AND THE CURRENT PHASE OF WORLD POLITICS
abstract: The present article first reviews three schools of research on order transition in the world political system, namely the hegemony theory school, the power transition theory school, and the interconnected region orders argument of the region studies school. Second, the article selects the hegemony theory as the one better suited to grasping the complexity of the current movement from the de-legitimised American hegemonic order to the future unknown one. The analysis traces the progress of the co
journal: International and Political Studies