Human Security As Statecraft

Author : Nik Hynek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136460722

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This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has been behind and underneath a certain spatio-temporal articulation of human security, and with what political implications and consequences. Each human security assemblage is composed of messy discourses and practices which are loosely related and sometimes even disconnected. This book examines the Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security and establishes the kinds of structural terrains have enabled, shaped, or blocked the unfolding of these versions of human security. The pivotal contention of the book is that Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security have been different because they have grown from completely different domestic economies of power governing the relationship between the state apparatus and the non-profit and voluntary sector. While the Canadian human security assemblage has been shaped by transformations in the country’s advanced liberal model of government, the Japanese has been shaped by the continuities of Japan’s bureaucratic authoritarianism. A novel approach is employed for the related process-tracing: a general series linking structural conditions with actual articulations of the human security projects, and their further development, including analysis of their unintended consequences. This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, human security, global governance, foreign policy and IR/Security studies.

Author : Yehezkel Dror
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136706387

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Israeli Statecraft by Yehezkel Dror Pdf

"This book provides a comprehensive study of Israeli statecraft, using an interdisciplinary framework to enable an in-depth understanding of its characteristics, challenges, and responses"--

Author : Mary Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3868720650

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An Alternative to Statecraft by Mary Martin Pdf

Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521474531

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Statecraft and Security by Ken Booth Pdf

This book shows how different countries and different groups of countries are confronting urgent issues of statecraft in a period of radical global transformation. An influential and distinguished group of contributors examines the lessons and legacies of the Cold War, the key powers and their policies in the post-Cold War world, and changing ideas about human society at a time of transformation. The book will help readers to think about statecraft and security in the first truly global age.

Author : Christian Leuprecht,Hayley McNorton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192646187

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Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft by Christian Leuprecht,Hayley McNorton Pdf

This book features a comparative study in intelligence accountability and governance across the Five Eyes: the imperative for member countries of the world's most powerful intelligence alliance to reconcile democracy and security through transparent standards, guidelines, legal frameworks, executive directives, and international law. It argues that intelligence accountability is best understood not as an end in itself but as a means that is integral democratic governance. On the one hand, to assure the executive of government and the public that the activities of intelligence agencies are lawful and, if not, to identify breaches in compliance. On the other hand, to raise awareness of and appreciation for the intelligence function, and whether it is being carried out in the most effective, efficient, and innovative way possible to achieve its objective. The analysis shows how the addition of legislative and judicial components to executive and administrative accountability has been shaping evolving institutions, composition, practices, characteristics, and cultures of intelligence oversight and review in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand using a most-similar systems design. Democracies are engaged in an asymmetric struggle against unprincipled adversaries. Technological change is enabling unprecedented social and political disruption. These threat vectors have significantly affected, altered, and expanded the role, powers and capabilities of intelligence organizations. Accountability aims to reassure sceptics that intelligence and security practices are indeed aligned with the rules and values that democracies claim to defend.

Author : Rob McRae,Don Hubert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773569300

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Human Security and the New Diplomacy by Rob McRae,Don Hubert Pdf

Written by diplomatic practitioners, Human Security and the New Diplomacy is a straightforward account of challenges already overcome and the prospect for further progress. From the evolution of peace-keeping, to peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention, war-affected children, international humanitarian law, the International Criminal Court, the economic agendas of conflict, transnational crime, and the emergence of connectivity and a global civil society, the authors offer new insights into the importance of considering these issues as part of a single agenda. Human Security and the New Diplomacy is a case-study of a major Canadian foreign policy initiative and a detailed account of the first phase of the human security agenda. The story of Canada's leading role in promoting a humanitarian approach to international relations, it will be of interest to foreign policy specialists and students alike. Contributors include David Angell, Alan Bones, Michael Bonser, Terry Cormier, Patricia Fortier, Bob Fowler, Elissa Goldberg, Mark Gwozdecky, Sam Hanson, Paul Heinbecker, Eric Hoskins, Don Hubert, David Lee, Dan Livermore, Jennifer Loten, Rob McRae, Valerie Ooterveld, Victor Rakmil, Darryl Robinson, Jill Sinclair, Michael Small, Ross Snyder, Carmen Sorger, and Roman Waschuk.

Author : Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643800060

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Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics by Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan Pdf

This book proposes an innovative and comprehensive framework for conducting statecraft in the 21st century. Called neo-statecraft, this framework is based on the reconciliation of power, interests and justice. The author proposes four substrates of neo-statecraft: 1) a new structure he calls meta-geopolitics, which includes seven inter-related dimensions of state power and identifies a Geostrategic Tripwire Pivotal Corridor (TPC); 2) a sustainable national security paradigm that stresses the centrality of justice, symbiotic realism and transcultural synergy; 3) a new concept called just power, which states that power must be smart as well as just, and that global justice is above all a national interest of all states; and 4) a new concept called reconciliation statecraft of the eight global interests. Dr. Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan is Senior Scholar in Geostrategy and Director of the Programme on the Geopolitical Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland. "This book offers a refreshing and ambitious re-examination of the nature of statecraft and geopolitics and contains a number of relevant concepts that can be translated into brand-new research and ambitious policy goals. Building on a number of his previous concepts, the author continues a remarkable endeavour aimed at updating and adapting traditional geopolitical perceptions. Step by step, brick after brick, the author is clearly building a major comprehensive contribution to strategic thinking and diplomacy." Professor Francois Gere, Director of Research at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and President of the French Institute for Strategic Analysis (IFAS), Paris, France. "This book provides a carefully crafted description of how the international system is being transformed and defines the challenges facing contemporary statecraft in handling that transformation. Nayef Al-Rodhan has undertaken this enormous task by defining the concept of meta-geopolitics and addressing potential future problems while making full use of the analytical tools that he has developed. It is a unique and intellectually courageous undertaking that will help us gain deeper insights into the many dimensions of current and future security challenges." Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, Chairman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden.

Author : Benn Steil,Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300128260

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Financial Statecraft by Benn Steil,Robert E. Litan Pdf

divAs trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments—most notably the United States—came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase and sale of financial assets across borders. Nearly $2 trillion worth of currency now moves cross-border every day, roughly 90 percent of which is accounted for by financial flows unrelated to trade in goods and services—a stunning inversion of the figures in 1970. The time is ripe to ask fundamental questions about what Benn Steil and Robert Litan have coined as “financial statecraft,” or those aspects of economic statecraft directed at influencing international capital flows. How precisely has the American government practiced financial statecraft? How effective have these efforts been? And how can they be made more effective? The authors provide penetrating and incisive answers in this timely and stimulating book. /DIV

Author : Steve Smith,Amelia Hadfield,Timothy Dunne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199215294

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Foreign Policy by Steve Smith,Amelia Hadfield,Timothy Dunne Pdf

This major new textbook introduces students to the dynamic and evolving field of foreign policy. The book opens with a consideration of different theoretical and historical perspectives; it then focuses on a range of actors and the goals they seek to advance; and it ends with a series of case studies involving issues and crises relating to a wide range of different countries Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases is timely given the growing significance of foreign policyin the post-9/11 world. It will be essential reading for all students new to foreign policy.The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.Student resources:TimelineWeb linksFlashcard glossaryInstructor resources:Three case studiesPowerPoint slides

Author : Margaret Thatcher
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780008264048

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Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher Pdf

Lady Thatcher, a unique figure in global politics, shares her views about the dangers and opportunities of the new millennium.

Author : Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills
Publisher : NBR
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780971393882

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Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy by Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills Pdf

Based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (National Nuclear Security Administration) under Award Number DE-FG52-03SF22724.

Author : Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific
Publisher : Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051623836

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Human Face of Security by Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Pdf

Author : Andy Pike,Peter O’Brien,Tom Strickland,John Tomaney
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788118958

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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure by Andy Pike,Peter O’Brien,Tom Strickland,John Tomaney Pdf

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.

Author : Scott Barrett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191531448

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Environment and Statecraft : The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making by Scott Barrett Pdf

Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do. A few treaties, such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, succeed. Most, however, fail to alter the state behaviour appreciably. This book develops a theory that explains both the successes and the failures. In particular, the book explains when treaties are needed, why some work better than others, and how treaty design can be improved. The best treaties strategically manipulate the incentives states have to exploit the environment, and the theory developed in this book shows how treaties can do this. The theory integrates a number of disciplines, including economics, political science, international law, negotiation analysis, and game theory. It also offers a coherent and consistent approach. The essential assumption is that treaties be self-enforcing-that is, individually rational, collectively rational, and fair. The book applies the theory to a number of environmental problems. It provides information on more than three hundred treaties, and analyses a number of case studies in detail. These include depletion of the ozone layer, whaling, pollution of the Rhine, acid rain, over-fishing, pollution of the oceans, and global climate change. The essential lesson of the book is that treaties should not just tell countries what to do. Treaties must make it in the interests of countries to behave differently. That is, they must restructure the underlying game. Most importantly, they must create incentives for states to participate in a treaty and for parties to comply.

Author : David A. Baldwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780691204437

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Economic Statecraft by David A. Baldwin Pdf

Introduction -- Techniques of statecraft -- What is economic statecraft? -- Thinking about economic statecraft -- Economic statecraft in international thought -- Bargaining with economic statecraft -- National power and economic statecraft -- "Classic cases" reconsidered -- Foreign trade -- Foreign aid -- The legality and morality of economic statecraft -- Conclusion -- Afterword : economic statecraft : continuity and change / Ethan B. Kapstein.