The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics 1989-1999
| Author | : Michael Cox |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 052178509X |
Leading scholars shed light on the meanings of world politics.
The Interregnum Controversies In World Politics 1989 1999
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Multipolarity in the 21st Century
| Author | : Donette Murray |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2012-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136461078 |
This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do. As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy continues to generate intense debate about the nature, quality and sustainability of US power. At the same time, significant developments in four rising powers - China, Russia, India and the European Union – have provoked analysts to ask whether multipolarity is a realistic prospect. Multipolarity in the 21st Century assesses the likelihood of a multipolar world developing, either by a marked US decline and or by the ability of these putative ‘rivals’ to continue to rise to the level necessary to be credibly considered a superpower. Written by a combination of emerging scholars and recognised experts, this volume will provide a timely and authoritative analysis of one of the most controversial and compelling security debates of the twenty-first century. This book will be of much interest to students of Security Studies, Foreign Policy and International Relations in general.
Maintaining Order, Making Peace
| Author | : O. Richmond |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2001-12-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230289045 |
This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict and examines how, in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system, their peacekeeping, mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches as well as UN peace operations, and asks via an empirical and theoretical analysis, what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.
Reinventing the Alliance
| Author | : G. Ikenberry |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2003-12-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1403980195 |
This is an edited volume that examines the US-Japan security alliance, the key to US-Japanese relations since the end of US occupation in the 50s. The alliance has long been a source of both co-operation and stress between the two nations, but with rapid changes in Asia, it has grown more problematic. This book brings American and Japanese specialists together to examine the alliance within the wider regional environment and to determine whether and how the bilateral alliance can evolve and remain at the core of the region's security order.
Globalization, Security, and the Nation State
| Author | : Ersel Aydinli |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0791483487 |
This volume studies the links among the concepts of globalization, security, and the authority of the nation state, drawing attention to why and how these three concepts are interrelated and why they should be studied together. Contributors explore the connections between security and global transformations, and the corresponding or resulting changes in state structures that emerge. Probing and extending existing paradigms, the book offers three regional cases studies: the periphery states of the Middle East and North Africa, the second world states of the Russian Federation, and the core states of the European Union. It concludes with three chapters that synthesize the above themes to identify corresponding changes in the patterns of international politics.
Why Canada Cares
| Author | : Andrew Lui |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0773587381 |
Support for international human rights has become an entrenched part of Canada's national mythology. Despite the gravity of human rights issues and how Canada appears to champion various causes, the role of human rights in Canadian foreign policy has received surprisingly little scrutiny. In Why Canada Cares, Andrew Lui brings clarity to this under-explored part of Canada's identity. Lui provides a chronological and theoretically grounded analysis of human rights in Canadian foreign policy since 1945. He argues that while the country has rarely proven willing to sacrifice material advantage for international human rights causes, Canada has pursued human rights as part of a broader attempt to cement individual rights as the cornerstone of Canadian federalism and aimed to mitigate friction between the country's diverse social groups. In other words, international human rights were implemented as a way to express and establish an expansive vision of what Canadian society should look like in order to survive and flourish as a coherent and unified political entity. The first comprehensive, single-authored book on the topic, Why Canada Cares uncovers the foundations of Canada's international human rights policies and offers insight into their possibilities and limits.
Reconstructing Restorative Justice Philosophy
| Author | : Theo Gavrielides |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2016-04-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317070178 |
This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy and human rights into restorative justice theory, resulting in the development of new and stimulating arguments. Topics covered include the close relationship and convergence of restorative justice and human rights, some of the challenges of engagement with human rights, the need for the recognition of the teachings of restorative justice at both the theoretical and the applied level, the Aristotelian theory on restorative justice, the role of restorative justice in schools and in police practice and a discussion of the humanistic African philosophy of Ubuntu. With international contributions from various disciplines and through the use of value based research methods, the book deconstructs existing concepts and suggests a new conceptual model for restorative justice. This unique book will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
Humanitarian Intervention
| Author | : Brendan Simms |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2011-04-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139497944 |
The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from notions of the common interests of 'Christendom' to ultimately incorporate all people under the concept of 'human rights'. As well as examining specific episodes of intervention, the authors consider how these have been perceived and justified over time, and offer important new insights into ideas of national sovereignty, international relations and law, as well as political thought and the development of current theories of 'international community'.
US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa
| Author | : Flavia Gasbarri |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2020-05-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000071588 |
This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however, it documents just one of the many "ends", since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds, the African continent, and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents, the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988, preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how, since then, some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history, US foreign policy, African politics and international relations.
