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"One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the five public IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between January and May 2016, and highlights of his dialogue with the audience. Kausikan gives a frank and dispassionate assessment of the international environment in the post-Cold War era and the geopolitical uncertainties that have emerged. In particular, he analyses the nature of US–China relations, the broad underlying factors in the South China Sea disputes and ASEAN's attempts to maintain order, and the role that human rights and democracy have played in international relations. He concludes by suggesting what Singapore needs to do to cope with the complexities that lie ahead, in this age without definition. The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivers between four and six lectures each year to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest."--Publisher's website

Hayward reviews 'Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics' by Paul Wapner.

Africa finds itself at the centre-stage of world politics in the 21st Century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond Euro-American perspectives, this book presents a comprehensive study of Africa and its role in global politics. Africa in World Affairs: -Closely examines the transition of Africa in its colonial and post-colonial phases; - Explores the intellectual history of modern Africa through liberation struggles, social movements, leaders and thinkers; - Investigates the continent's relationships with former colonial powers such as Britain, France, and Portugal; untangles complexities of French neo-colonialism and sheds light on the role of the superpower such as the USA and major and rising powers like China and India; - Highlights complex and wide-ranging diversities of the region, and the ways in which it continues to negotiate with issues of modernity, racism and globalisation. A core text on Africa and the world, this book will be indispensable for students of African studies, politics and international relations, and history. It will also be a must-read for policy-makers, diplomats and government think tanks--Provided by publisher.

This re-issued work, first published in 1959, is a collection of€essays by British€historian€Max Beloff, €designed to help us to understand€and interpret the political problems of€the twentieth century. The essays are divided into three key areas: the€challenges and limitations of interpretation from a historian's perspective, the appropriate scale for political activity and organisation in the modern world, and the emergence of the United€States of America as the most powerful nation on the planet.

Between Apology to Utopia : The Politics of International Law --The Politics of International Law - 20 Years Later --The Place of Law in Collective Security --'The Lady Doth Protest Too Much' : Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics in International Law --The Effect of Rights on Political Culture --Human Rights, Politics and Love --Between Impunity and Show Trials --Faith, Identity, and the Killing of the Innocent : International Lawyers and Nuclear Weapons --International Law and Hegemony : a Reconfiguration --What is International Law For? --Between Commitment and Cynicism : Outline for a Theory of International Law as Practice --Style as Method : Letter to the Editors of the Symposium --Miserable Comforters : International Relations as New Natural Law --The Fate of Public International Law : Between Technique and Politics.

The last 20 years have witnessed an impressive outpouring of comparative politics research examining urban politics in the developing world. This research advances our understanding of phenomena such as clientelism, law and order, and local public goods provision. Scholarship could be strengthened, however, through more careful attention to how the urban setting of this research affects the politics examined. This article proposes two distinct ways in which urban politics can be conceptualized: politics taking place in urban agglomerations, characterized by large, diverse populations settled at high densities; or politics taking place within the boundaries of city jurisdictions, possessing legal powers and responsibilities distinct from those at other tiers of government or in rural areas. Adopting either of these conceptualizations illuminates new avenues for empirical work, theoretical innovation, and improved measurement. This article also shows that recent scholarship has neglected important, and fundamentally political, topics such as urban political economy, land markets, and environmental harms. Engaging with these areas would allow political scientists to revisit classic questions regarding the institutional influences on economic growth, the politics of redistribution, and the determinants of collective action.

© 2018 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved. The last 20 years have witnessed an impressive outpouring of comparative politics research examining urban politics in the developing world. This research advances our understanding of phenomena such as clientelism, law and order, and local public goods provision. Scholarship could be strengthened, however, through more careful attention to how the urban setting of this research affects the politics examined. This article proposes two distinct ways in which urban politics can be conceptualized: politics taking place in urban agglomerations, characterized by large, diverse populations settled at high densities; or politics taking place within the boundaries of city jurisdictions, possessing legal powers and responsibilities distinct from those at other tiers of government or in rural areas. Adopting either of these conceptualizations illuminates new avenues for empirical work, theoretical innovation, and improved measurement. This article also shows that recent scholarship has neglected important, and fundamentally political, topics such as urban political economy, land markets, and environmental harms. Engaging with these areas would allow political scientists to revisit classic questions regarding the institutional influences on economic growth, the politics of redistribution, and the determinants of collective action.

The Black Tuesday attacks against New York and Washington shook the world. What do they reveal about the nature of contemporary world politics? What will be their impact on relations between states and on the wider global community? How did past policies and practices contribute to the current crisis? How might these events have been avoided, and what responses and strategies should now be adopted? What is the ethics and legality of 'the war against terrorism'? And how has Australia responded to the world crisis, and with what likely affect? In the first of a new series of publications called Keynotes, leading scholars of international relations canvass these issues and more in short accessible essays, offering early reflections on the nature and significance of the Twenty-first Century's first global crisis.

World politics is rife with complex controversial issues. A time-honored method of teaching controversies & skills of critical analysis is educational debate. This study seeks to acquaint educators of world politics with methodology of educational debate & provide practical recommendations on how to make this method of instruction a success. It focuses on challenges to functional debate -- difficulties with motivating students to think critically & assessing them reliably, engaging all students in debates & maintaining rapport in the classroom, selecting appropriate topics for debates & economizing instructor's preparation time -- & suggests approaches for tackling the barriers to this instructional technique. The practical recommendations proposed in the study have been validated in the research literature & evidence collected in the introductory international relations classes by means of action research. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

Edited by Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein, this book asks scholars to reflect on the role power plays in contemporary politics and how a power politics approach is influential today. The arguments made by the authors in the volume speak to one of three themes that run through Krasner's work: state power and hegemony; the relationship between states and markets; and conceptions of the nation state in international politics