Introduction: identity in an open world order

ABSTRACT This study is a brief introduction to the themed issue titled Identity In An Open World Order, for which we are guest editors. With this introduction, we intend to review each paper of the themed issue and state how each contributes to debates and advance knowledge and explains what they add to social science until drawing out avenues for future research. The special issue is focused on the shift of identity from maximum opening to maximum radicalisation, analysing the shaping of new forms of the civilising process, significantly facilitating the globalisation of the sovereign world order.