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African States - Domestic And External Security Challenges

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 Essays on the security challenges faced by African states.The central concern that shapes this edited volume is the nature of the African state. Contributors point to an interesting intersection of domestic and external issues that is framed as a glocalized security situation. Individual chapters shed new insights on conflict drivers through case studies on Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia, as well as broader issues on the nature of African states. Arguments pivot on three issues, which show the intersection of the domestic and external forces that render the African state as a glocal problem: (a) the colonial roots of the state, (b) problems of governance, and (c) international and regional security imperatives. By problematizing the African state and connecting the security challenges of African states to colonialism, patrimonial rule, and geopolitical security issues, African States brings forth a new way of examining African states through the notion of glocalized security.
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Relations And Roles In China'S Internationalism - Rediscovering Confucianism In A Pluriversal World

by Chih-Yu Shih

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 Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China''s Internationalism, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China''s internationalism.
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China'S Belt And Road Power Transition - Preparations And Blowbacks

by Chien-Peng (C. P.) Chung

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 Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China''s leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States.In the opening decades of the twenty-first century the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership under Xi Jinping has created a worldwide Sino-centric network, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to challenge American dominance in world affairs. Encompassing economic, financial, political, and strategic relations, the CCP''s belief is that the funds, construction projects, and promises offered by the BRI will generate a widespread perception of the inexorability, legitimacy, and thus acceptability of a Chinese world order. Consisting initially of a land-based "Silk Road Economic Belt," an oceangoing "Maritime Silk Road," and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the BRI has expanded to involve more than 140 countries and includes a Health Silk Road, Digital Silk Road, and Polar Silk Road, but it has also experienced serious challenges. Using power transition theory, Chien-peng Chung carefully investigates and evaluates the enterprise''s benefits and shortcomings, concluding that it is still too early to consider the BRI a success.
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Growing Strong, Growing Apart - The Erosion Of Democracy As A Core Pillar Of Nato Enlargement, 1949-2023

by Eyal Rubinson

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 Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.Since its establishment, NATO has admitted a variety of new members in several enlargement rounds, even though some of these countries fall short of the organizational expectations of democracy-as stipulated in an elaborate scheme of texts, speeches, and statements. Growing Strong, Growing Apart maintains that this policy results from gradual erosion in the prominence of democratic discourse within the organization, normalizing deviations from previous optimistic expectations that became increasingly unsustainable after the end of the Cold War. Eyal Rubinson''s analysis of NATO''s conduct in this regard builds on archival research and interviews with NATO officials and senior member states'' representatives. He discusses this theme in depth through detailed case studies, each covering a different period, emphasizing the place of cognitive processes in international organizations'' decision-making.
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Complexity Science And World Affairs

by Jr. Walter C. Clemens

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 Applies complexity science to the study of international politics.Why did some countries transition peacefully from communist rule to political freedom and market economies, while others did not? Why did the United States enjoy a brief moment as the sole remaining superpower, and then lose power and influence across the board? What are the prospects for China, the main challenger to American hegemony? In Complexity Science and World Affairs, Walter C. Clemens Jr. demonstrates how the basic concepts of complexity science can broaden and deepen the insights gained by other approaches to the study of world affairs. He argues that societal fitness-the ability of a social system to cope with complex challenges and opportunities-hinges heavily on the values and way of life of each society, and serves to explain why some societies gain and others lose. Applying theory to several rich case studies, including political developments across post-Soviet Eurasia and the United States, Clemens shows that complexity science offers a powerful set of tools for advancing the study of international relations, comparative government, and, more broadly, the social sciences.
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Nato'S Durability In A Post-Cold War World

by Joe Burton

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 Why is it that despite the end of the Cold War and the almost constant controversies surrounding the alliance''s role in the world, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still a prominent and vital player in international security? Joe Burton provides an in-depth analysis of NATO''s changing role in the post-Cold War era and its ability to survive, adapt, and meet the needs of its members in an increasingly turbulent, globalized security environment. He offers a historically and theoretically informed account of NATO that isolates the core dynamics that have held the alliance together in troubled times. In particular, he examines a series of processes and events—from the 1990 Gulf War to the rise of the Islamic State—that help explain NATO''s continuing relevance.
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Bringing The Nation Back In - Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, And The Struggle To Define A New Politics

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 Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.Bringing the Nation Back In takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the United States and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union, and the development of the postnational. This book contends we are now witnessing a break with the post-1945 world order and with modern politics. Two competing ideas have arisen-global cosmopolitanism and populist nationalism. Contributors argue this polarization of social ethos between cosmopolitanism and nationalism is a sign of a deeper political crisis, which they explore from different perspectives. Rather than taking sides, the aim is to diagnose the origins of the current impasse and to "bring the nation back in" by expanding what we mean by "nation" and national identity and by respecting the localizing processes that have led to national traditions and struggles.
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Massively Parallel Globalization - Explorations In Self-Organization And World Politics

by David C. Earnest

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 Explores how individuals and groups adapt to the challenges of globalization.In this era of globalization, people organize into fluid, adaptive networks to solve complex problems and provide resources that nation-states cannot. Examples include the Grameen Bank, mHealth, and the Ushahidi open source software project. Why do these networks succeed where nation-states fail? Only recently have social scientists developed tools to understand exactly how these complex networks self-organize, emerge, adapt, and solve collective problems. Three of these tools-agent-based modeling, social network analysis, and evolutionary computing-are converging in a field known as computational social science. In this provocative book, David C. Earnest discusses how computational social science helps us understand "massively parallel globalization." Using "explorations" of global systems ranging from fisheries to banking, Earnest illustrates the promise of computer models for explaining the surprises, cascades, and complexity that characterize global politics today. These examples of massively parallel globalization contrast sharply with the hierarchical and inflexible governmental bureaucracies that are poorly suited to solve many of today''s transnational and global challenges.
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Complex Effects Of International Relations - Intended And Unintended Consequences Of Human Actions In Middle East Conflicts

by Ofer Israeli

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 Identifies the many ways in which unexpected outcomes are endemic to international relations due to the complexity of world politics.In this comprehensive and unique theory-practice study, Ofer Israeli examines complex effects of international relations relating to various indirect-intended and unintended-consequences of intentional human action. These effects may be desirable or undesirable, overt or covert, anticipated or surprising, foreseeable but unanticipated, and anticipated but simultaneously neglected or discounted. Israeli focuses on six case studies from the Middle East, analyzing the unexpected and accidental results of interventions in this region by the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western powers during the Cold War. From this research, he develops a complex-causal mechanism or practical tool that countries may use to implement foreign policy, with the goal of reducing the number of conflicts and wars globally, especially in the Middle East.
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African States - Domestic And External Security Challenges

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Relations And Roles In China'S Internationalism - Rediscovering Confucianism In A Pluriversal World

by Chih-Yu Shih

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China'S Belt And Road Power Transition - Preparations And Blowbacks

by Chien-Peng (C. P.) (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Chung

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Post-Chineseness - Cultural Politics And International Relations

by Chih-Yu Shih

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Complex Effects Of International Relations - Intended And Unintended Consequences Of Human Actions In Middle East Conflicts

by Ofer Israeli

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Bringing The Nation Back In - Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, And The Struggle To Define A New Politics

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