Suchergebnisse

This book focuses on the legal and procedural problems caused by China's default in the South China Sea Arbitration. Many of these problems arose because in several respects, China departed from the conduct of other defaulting States in cases before the International Court of Justice. The book argues that the Tribunal, confronted with the difficulties of maintaining the balance between two parties in a situation of default, drew on the full range of its powers to ensure that neither China nor the Philippines would suffer from China's default. Further, the book describes the shortcomings of the submissions of putative amicus curiae. It refutes China's questioning of the independence and impartiality of the experts and of the judges. In so doing, it explains the expert opinions and the Tribunal's assessments of the latter in the areas of satellite imagery, coral reef ecology, and navigational safety, while rebutting the half- truths and counter-truths disseminated by Chinese scholars about the proceedings. The book compares China's threats to the independence of the Tribunal to its behavior towards Chinese judges. It places China's accusations of bias against the Tribunal in the context of China's domestic situation, and concludes that the Tribunal, acting independently and impartially, was able to perform the judicial function, despite China's default. Alfredo C. Robles Jr. is a University Fellow at De La Salle University, Philippines. He holds doctorate degrees from the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and Syracuse University. He is the author of French Theories of Regulation and Conceptions of the International Division of Labour (1994), The Political Economy of Interregional Relations: ASEAN and the EU (2004), The Asia-Europe Meeting: The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism (2008), The South China Sea Arbitration: Understanding the Awards and Debating with China (2018), Endangered Species and Fragile Ecosystems in the South China Sea: The Philippines v. China Arbitration (2020), and Vessel Collisions in the Law of the Sea: The South China Sea Arbitration (2022)

This book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, how diverse social and political identities such as ethnicity, culture, religion and gender can tackle risks such as violence, conflicts, and pandemics from the perspective of security. It is ambitious and valuable book analyzing how to confront political, social and international community's risks with norms and institutional reforms within the framework of neoliberal global competition. (--Professor Kumiko Haba, Aoyama Gakuin University and former Vice-President of Internationals Studies Association (ISA)) How do our experiences of identity shape our experience of risk in a rapidly changing, and increasingly insecure world? These are some of the critical questions that the book provides through exciting and vital insights for a more sustainable, secure future. (--Professor Bronwyn Hayward, MNZM, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Member of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) This volume explores the complex interrelation between risk, identity and conflict and focuses specifically on ethnicity, religion and gender as modes of identity that are often associated with conflict in the contemporary world. It draws on theoretical perspectives as well as pays special attention to analysis of diverse case studies from Africa, Middle East, Europe, East and Southeast Asia and Latin America. Using various analytical tools and methodologies, it provides unique narratives of local and regional social risk factors and security complexities. The relationship between risk and security is multidimensional and perpetually changing, and lends itself to multiple interpretations. This publication provides a new ground for theoretical and policy debates to unlock innovative understanding of risk through analyses of identity as a significant factor in conflict in the world today. At the same time, it explores ways to address such conflicts in a more people-centered, empowering and sustainable way. Steven Ratuva is Director and Professor, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Hamdy A. Hassan, Ph.D., is Professor, Institute for Islamic World Studies Institute, Zayed University. Radomir Compel is associate professor of comparative politics at Nagasaki University.

Scholars have attempted to theorise the social structure of the international system from the perspective of the 'middle powers' for decades. However, scholars have struggled to agree on the essential dispositional characteristics of this category of actors, stunting theoretical progress. Drawing on sociological and literary approaches to the rhetoric of the 'middle class' in domestic societies, this article shifts the terms of this debate away from asking who the 'middle powers' are or what their 'essence' is, to ask what actors do with the term in practice. Combining this with and contributing to scholarship on hierarchy in international relations, I recast 'middle powers' as a category of practice and argue that one of the term's main uses is to differentiate certain status-anxious states – that hold no real prospect of achieving great power status – from 'small states' that occupy the lowest stratum of stratification within the 'grading of powers'. Following an illustrative case study of Australian and Canadian attempts to establish the 'middle power' category in the 1940s, the article then outlines the contributions of the argument for the study of status and hierarchy in world politics.

This book is a selection of his most recent essays which address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of international law, globalization and global governance.

Benutzerkommentar

Geo-economic policies have become an increasingly important feature of international politics - and not just since the war in Ukraine. The EU has proposed an economic anti-coercion tool to deter third-party coercion. This policy brief analyses the risks and benefits as well as the challenges related to the EU's proposed deterrence policy based on a review of the academic literature on coercion and the effectiveness of economic sanctions.

"Explores many aspects of the economic relationship between the United States and China, including the impact on the auto industry, agriculture, and manufacturing jobs"--