Plural International Relations In A Divided World

Author : Stephen Chan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509508716
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plural International Relations in a Divided World written by Stephen Chan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective. In this timely book, Stephen Chan explores the historical and philosophical roots of difference and discord in the international system. He begins with the introduction of the Westphalian system, showing how, throughout the 20th century, new states - from the Middle East, Asia and Africa - entered that system with reservations, preconditions, and great efforts to introduce new forms of concerts and congresses but without seriously challenging the international status-quo. By contrast, the 21st century has brought turmoil and change in the form of militant Islam - be it the Taleban, Al Qaeda, or ISIS - whose varied roots and fluid emergence have so far prevented the West from being able to understand and combat it. Developing Kissinger's suspicion of Saudi Arabia as an Islamic state in Westphalian dress, Chan argues that what is at stake today is not the development of a new Caliphate or an old radicalism - but the effort to supplant and replace the Westphalian system itself. This is the complex and challenging reality to which a truly modern and persuasively relevant plural international relations must now adapt. Whether it can do so remains to be seen.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United Nations, Divided World written by Adam Roberts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in human history, the world consists of theoretically equal sovereign states, most of which belong to one world organization--the United Nations--and subscribe to a single set of principles--those of its Charter. Yet the U.N. has conspicuously failed to solve problems of armaments, war, division, inequality, and dictatorship. An authoritative assessment, this book brings together distinguished academics and senior U.N. officials--including the Secretary-General--in a sympathetic yet critical account of the U.N.'s role in international relations since 1945.

Author : Stephen Chan, OBE
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538164981
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lived International written by Stephen Chan, OBE and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan’s personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author’s academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that language, spoken and written discourse alone, are not a sufficient claim to ‘bearing witness’, and that even activism from afar can often fail to understand a human condition that afflicts the majority of the world’s population. Chan demonstrates that a life of praxis, living international relations, yields more insights than a life of theory alone.

Author : Albert Kasanda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000415961
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa in a Multilateral World written by Albert Kasanda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole. The first part focuses on the assumptions that are necessary to understand the role of Africa on the global stage, especially from the perspectives of political philosophy and global and international studies. The second part of the book looks at both Afropolitan trends and the limits of Afropolitanism. In the third part the authors focus on specific African global tendencies stemming from the local conditions in several case studies. Traditional and modern politics is connected, problematically, with the current Jihadist organisations in the local African conditions related to unilateralism and global war on terror, for example. The fourth part deals with the relevance of the language ambivalence in relation to global interactions. It examines various views of African philosophy and lays bare the perception of earlier colonial languages in view of their current strength of global action. This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, political philosophy, politics and global studies.

Author : Scott D. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429521499
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Order and the Politics of Disaster written by Scott D. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this indispensable and comprehensive text, Scott D. Watson critically examines the current understanding of international order that underpins international disaster management and disaster diplomacy. Based on empirical analysis of the three international disaster management regimes - disaster relief, disaster risk reduction, and disaster migration - and case studies of disaster diplomacy in the United States, Egypt and China, Watson argues that international disaster management and disaster diplomacy are not simply efforts to reduce the impact of disasters or to manage bilateral relations but to reinforce key beliefs about the larger international order. Challenging the conventional understandings of disasters as natural, as exogenous shocks, or as unintended and accidental outcomes of the current order, this text shows how the ideological foundations of the current heterogenous international order produce recurrent disasters. International Order and the Politics of Disaster is a vital source for undergraduate or graduate students interested in international responses to disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies, forced migration and displacement, as well as climate change and development.

Author : Christian Reus-Smit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108473857
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Cultural Diversity written by Christian Reus-Smit and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically evaluates how international relations theories have conceived culture, and advances a new account of cultural diversity and international order.

Author : Gülistan Gürbey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031097564
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy written by Gülistan Gürbey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares the involvement of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine (Palestinian Territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip) in international relations from the viewpoint of their practical performance. In particular, it provides an overview over the current Kurdish and Palestinian paradiplomatic activities and their practical performance in terms of their capabilities, capacities and practical achievements. The contributing authors analyze the evolution of paradiplomacy, the domestic legal and institutional framework, the goals, instruments, and capabilities of Kurdish and Palestinian paradiplomacy, and selected foreign relations. The book identifies the similarities and differences between the paradiplomacy of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine with regard to a set of guidelines: causes, legal foundations, institutionalization, predominant motives, practical implementation, and outcomes of paradiplomacy. It provides empirical explanations about how and why Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine develop and practice paradiplomacy and contributes to a better understanding of Kurdistan-Iraq’s and Palestine’s involvement in international affairs and their activities.

Author : Donald Puchala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317342682
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United Nations Politics written by Donald Puchala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United Nations Politics takes a unique approach that focuses on the politics that is, the persistent and mostly singular emphasis that all member states place on the pursuit of national political, economic, cultural and ideological interests of UN affairs. The project began as an effort to research and write a ten-year-later sequel to The Challenge of Relevance written by Puchala and Coate in 1989. This earlier volume was an assessment of the United Nations and its operations in the late eighties. United Nations Politics builds from a series of some 200 interviews conducted at the UN and in various member-state missions between 2000 and 2005. Among other things , these interviews revealed that the existing English-language literature on the UN fails to take into appropriate account the dynamics and the impacts of the internal and external political contexts within which the UN operates. This book directly addresses this shortcoming in the academic literature.

Author : Miro Roman
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035624054
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Among Books written by Miro Roman and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Haynes, Jeffrey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839100249
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Religion and International Relations written by Haynes, Jeffrey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Handbook examines the relationship between religion and international relations, mainly focusing on several world religions – Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. Providing a timely update on this understudied topic, it evaluates how this complex relationship has evolved over the last four decades, looking at a variety of political contexts, regions and countries.