Power Vacuums And Global Politics

Author : Hanna Samir Kassab
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000901153

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Power Vacuums and Global Politics by Hanna Samir Kassab Pdf

In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework that explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system. A power vacuum is the fundamental absence of legitimate state authority over a geographic territory, and it is a space free of governance. With no state authority governing a geographical region, opportunistic states and organized criminal and terrorist networks may attempt to control that space. Using a variety of historical examples and centering his analysis on ungoverned spaces rather than great powers, Kassab uncovers neglected areas of great power competition. Part 1 discusses state actors: specifically, the strategic space of the Arctic, the Middle East and Africa, and Afghanistan and Central Asia. Part 2 examines non-state actors, such as terrorist networks and organized criminal networks, and the formulation of paramilitaries. Power Vacuums and Global Politics is the perfect volume for both undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations, security studies, political science, comparative politics, international political economy, and war and peace.

Author : Piotr Dutkiewicz,Tom Casier,Jan Aart Scholte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000191455

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Hegemony and World Order by Piotr Dutkiewicz,Tom Casier,Jan Aart Scholte Pdf

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony – that is, legitimated rule by dominant power – have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes does it bring? This volume addresses these questions by assembling perspectives from various regions across the world, including Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, Russia and the USA. The contributions in this book span diverse theoretical perspectives from realism to postcolonialism, as well as multiple issue areas such as finance, the Internet, migration and warfare. By exploring the role of non-state actors, transnational networks, and norms, this collection covers various standpoints and moves beyond traditional concepts of state-based hierarches centred on material power. The result is a wealth of novel insights on today's changing dynamics of world politics. Hegemony and World Order is critical reading for policymakers and advanced students of International Relations, Global Governance, Development, and International Political Economy.

Author : R. Jackson,P. Towle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230626386

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Temptations of Power by R. Jackson,P. Towle Pdf

Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they could seriously wound a great military powers on home ground. The authors argue that the response was influenced by neo-conservative exaggeration of the efficacy of military power and belief in the US ability.

Author : Hanna Samir Kassab
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000613926

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Globalization, Multipolarity and Great Power Competition by Hanna Samir Kassab Pdf

In his new book, Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system. He argues that the increase in geopolitical, economic, nationalist, and resource competition between three great powers, the United States, China, and Russia, points to the changing structure of the international system. This competition is a systemic one, focusing more on the rules and norms that defined the system since the end of the Cold War. This American-led unipolar order is translating into a multipolar one. Kassab begins by tracing the decline of the United States after the Iraq War (2003) and the Great Recession (2008) as well as the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia. He describes major foreign policy changes from George H.W. Bush to Donald J. Trump and how the various administrations approached the international system. Russia and China will increase their international influence as the United States pulls back from the international system. Written using simple jargon, Globalization, Multipolarity and Great Power Competition is equally accessible to academics and casual readers and laypeople interested in international politics.

Author : Sergey Smolnikov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319718859

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Great Power Conduct and Credibility in World Politics by Sergey Smolnikov Pdf

This book seeks to answer one main question: what is the core concern of great powers that streamlines their behavior in the contemporary system of international relations? Building on the examples of the United States, China, Russia, France, and Britain, it tracks both consistency and fluctuations in global power dynamics and great power behavior. The author examines the genesis, causality, and policy implications of decision makers’ fixation with retaining a credible image of power in world politics, while exploring how the dynamics of power distribution in international systems modify perceptions of primacy. Drawing on findings from disciplines such as history, economics, social and political psychology, communication theory, philosophy, political science, strategic studies, and above all, from International Relations theory and practice, the volume proposes a novel theory of power credibility, which offers an original explanation of great powers’ behavior at the stage of their relative decline.

Author : David Chandler
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0745329217

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Hollow Hegemony by David Chandler Pdf

David Chandler explores the concept of 'global ideology' and how it impacts on politics, economics, and development studies, explaining why 'the global' is such a damaging construction and exposing the political vacuum at the heart of common perceptions of global politics. He argues that the pre-eminence of the global, whether in terms of global governance, global security or global resistance, is predicated on a lack rather than a presence. It is the lack of clear sites and articulations of power, the lack of clear security threats and the lack of clear political programmes or movements of resistance that drives the concept of international relations in global terms. This wide-ranging analysis is a perfect antidote for students frustrated with the abundant, but vague literature on globalization.

Author : Brent J Steele
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472034963

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Defacing Power by Brent J Steele Pdf

How do nations create and maintain images of power?

Author : Mary Ann Tétreault,Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742510905

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Global Politics as If People Mattered by Mary Ann Tétreault,Ronnie D. Lipschutz Pdf

Global politics because people matter -- People, households, and the world -- People and power -- People and economy -- People and states -- People and borders -- People and war -- People and justice -- People and globalization -- People matter.

Author : Robert Owen Keohane
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415288185

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Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World by Robert Owen Keohane Pdf

Consisting of a selection of Keohane's most recent essays, this absorbing book address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of international law, globalization and global governance.

Author : Øystein Tunsjø
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231546904

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The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics by Øystein Tunsjø Pdf

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity—a system in which no third power can challenge the top two. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century. Tunsjø expands Kenneth N. Waltz’s structural-realist theory to examine the new bipolarity within the context of geopolitics, which he calls “geostructural realism.” He considers how a new bipolar system will affect balancing and stability in U.S.-China relations, predicting that the new bipolarity will not be as prone to arms races as the previous era’s; that the risk of limited war between the two superpowers is likely to be higher in the coming bipolarity, especially since the two powers are primarily rivals at sea rather than on land; and that the superpowers are likely to be preoccupied with rivalry and conflict in East Asia instead of globally. Tunsjø presents a major challenge to how international relations understands superpowers in the twenty-first century.

Author : Peter van Ham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415564212

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Social Power in International Politics by Peter van Ham Pdf

"Peter van Ham gives new meaning to the term `social power'. This book is an eloquent and stimulating contribution to an important debate". Ludger Kuhnhardt, Center for European Integration Studies, Bonn University, Germany --

Author : Richard Falk
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1783607939

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Power Shift by Richard Falk Pdf

This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux. Our ideas about global order have yet to catch up with these new behavioral trends, including the rise of non-state transnational political actors in the context of neoliberal globalization. In this historical setting the modern territorial sovereign state is confronted by multiple challenges ranging from climate change to mass migration to transnational political extremism. The existing global order seems currently overwhelmed by these challenges, resulting in widespread stress and chaos that is transforming global security in ways that endanger democratic governance. The future will be determined by whether the peoples of the world make their weight felt in support of sustainable global justice and overcome the impact of oppressive and exploitative patterns of corporate and state behavior. It is this problematic set of circumstances that Power Shift addresses.

Author : Lorenzo Kamel
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788868128289

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The Frailty of Authority by Lorenzo Kamel Pdf

Governance failures, combined with 21st-century social, economic, environmental and demographic conditions, have all contributed to paving the way for the rise of highly heterogeneous non-state and quasi-state actors in the Middle East. Has the state, then, been irremediably undermined, or will the current transition lead to the emergence of new state entities? How can the crumbling of states and the redrawing of borders be reconciled with the exacerbation of traditional inter-state competition, including through proxy wars? How can a new potential regional order be framed and imagined? This volume provides a historical background and policy answers to these and a number of other related questions, analysing developments in the region from the standpoint of the interplay between disintegration and polarization.

Author : Thomas C. Lawton,James N. Rosenau,Amy Verdun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Globalization
ISBN : UCSD:31822029679131

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Strange Power by Thomas C. Lawton,James N. Rosenau,Amy Verdun Pdf

Few academics in the field of IPE have so re-conceptualized our understanding of the new power realities in the late 20th century as Susan Strange. This book presents a timely examination of Strange's much quoted structural power theories, written by leading international analysts. Each contributor advances the framework of these theories from their own unique perspective, to provide an authoritative view of international power in the era of the global economy.

Author : Melvin Gurtov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International economic relations
ISBN : 155587441X

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Global Politics in the Human Interest by Melvin Gurtov Pdf