Since the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in late 1978, Sino-Thai relations have concentrated on the outstanding Cambodian issue. With the final resolution of the Cambodian problem in progress, the strategic rationale of close bilateral relations was reduced considerably. Economic diplomacy has began to replace strategic co-operation between these countries. The author explores the shift of priorities in the agenda Sino-Thai relations. (DÜI-Sen)
What is global studies? : a political and economic perspective / Michael R. Anderson and Stephanie S. Holmsten -- Historical foundations / Michael R. Anderson -- U.S. globalism and the present World order / Michael R. Anderson -- Key concepts and processes : empire and imperialism / Michael R. Anderson -- Key concepts and processes : development / Stephanie S. Holmsten -- Key concepts and processes : security / Michael R. Anderson and Stephanie S. Holmsten -- Key concepts and processes : sustainability / Stephanie S. Holmsten -- Key concepts and processes : governance / Stephanie S. Holmsten -- Case studies -- Introduction to the case studies -- Regional and global impacts of post-Gaddafi Libya / Brandon Gentry -- The anti-apartheid movement in the Western world : segregation, revolution, and the creation of a global civil society / R. Joseph Parrott -- The Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal : globalization and decolonization in New Zealand / Sean Killen -- The causes and consequences of international migration : the view from Europe / John D. Graeber -- Patterns of fear : hegemony, globalization, and the U.S.-Japan trade conflict, 1971-1996 / John Taylor Vurpillat -- Globalization and transnational capitalism / Jerry Harris -- When weak states win : providing opportunities at the WTO / Stephanie S. Holmsten.
International Relations scholars and policy-makers are increasingly paying greater attention to a new category of fragile and failed states across Asia, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Latin America and the Middle East. While effective policy responses are necessary to strengthen these politically fractured, economically collapsing and socially divided states, the category itself appears to be more politically and ideologically charged and less critically understood in the context of international relations. There is a general tendency to avoid examining how political and economic policies and military actions by the West contributed to the degeneration of these states. This article seeks to re-examine the causes of state fragility and failure, and critically reviews the current US strategies to rebuild the failed states of Afghanistan and Iraq. It argues that the US-led statebuilding strategies in both countries are based on a wrong diagnosis of the political and social problems, and the solutions offered are also ill-conceived. The article also contends that the Western liberal vision of the state, premised on the Weberian notion, commands less relevance to the fragile and failed states in the non-Western world.
This article interrogates the role of tragedy within the work of International Relations theorists including Michael Dillon, Mervyn Frost, Richard Ned Lebow and Hans Morgenthau. It argues that a tragic sensibility is a constituent part of much thinking about politics and the international, and asks what the reasons for this preoccupation might be. Noting that a number of diverse theoretical appeals to tragedy in International Relations invoke analytically similar understandings of tragic-political subjectivity, the article problematises these by building on Michel Foucault's intermittent concern with the genre in his Collège de France lecture series. It proposes that a genealogical consideration of tragedy enables an alertness to its political associations and implications that asks questions of the way in which it is commonly conceived within the discipline. The article concludes by suggesting that International Relations theorists seeking to invoke tragedy must think carefully about the ontological, epistemological, ethical and political claims associated with such a move.
This book aims to explore G20 rising powers increasing role in international development from a comprehensive perspective. The first part focuses on the historical development and current dynamics of (G20) rising powers evolving actorness in international development to assess their main motivations. The second part examines the main contributions, trends and limits of G20 rising powers in South-South Cooperation. The third part analyses the linkage between G20 rising powers active involvement in international development and their foreign policies. Emel Parlar Dal is Professor at Marmara Universitys Department of International Relations. She is the Jean Monnet Chair on the EU and Rising Powers (2020-2023) and the director of JM Center of Excellence on the EUs sustainability in Global Governance (2022-2025).
WHETHER NATO EXPANSION IS AN EFFORT TO EXTEND WESTERN INFLUENCE AT RUSSIA'S EXPENSE OR TO SUPPORT NASCENT DEMOCRACIES, DEPENDS ON WHETHER ONE IS A REALIST OR LIBERAL THINKER. NO SINGLE APPROACH CAN CAPTURE ALL THE COMPLEXITY OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD POLITICS. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT PEOPLE ARE BETTER OFF WITH A DIVERSE ARRAY OF COMPETING IDEAS RATHER THAN A SINGLE THEORETICAL ORTHODOXY. IT OFFERS A LOOK AT TOMORROW'S CONCEPTUAL TOOLBOX.
