This issue addresses two types of socio-economic order that refer to two radical forms of existence of urban law. These two forms are the neoliberal order European and American law and the Russian post-socialist order. The opposition of the two orders is based on the assumption that existing ways of describing the global order are insufficient to explain the space of change in which we find ourselves. This assumption does not presuppose assessments from the perspective of international law. It defines a strategy that explains how an accelerated transition to radical change occurred from a situation of global order. The perspective offered by this issue attempts to overcome the classical spatial logic of opposing center and periphery and to show that extremes and competing orders are mutually complementary and therefore cannot be in a hierarchical relationship.
