Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Let Him Sleep -- Part I: The Dragon Stirs: 1880-1937 -- Chapter 1: The Birth of the Yellow Peril: 1880-1900 -- Chapter 2: Worldwide Opposition to Chinese Immigration -- Chapter 3: Warlords and Fu Manchu: 1900-20 -- Chapter 4: Hopes and Fears and Chiang Kai-shek: 1920-37 -- Part II: The Dragon Roars: 1937-76 -- Chapter 5: The Communists' Path to Power: 1937-53 -- Chapter 6: Mao Zedong Confronts the World: 1953-66 -- Chapter 7: China in Early Cold War Popular Culture -- Chapter 8: The Ending of Isolation: 1966-76 -- Part III: The Dragon Soars: 1976-2022 -- Chapter 9: Deng Xiaoping, Before and After Tiananmen: 1976-93 -- Chapter 10: China's Peaceful Rise: 1993-2008 -- Chapter 11: From the Beijing Olympics to Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: 2008-23 -- Conclusion: When He Wakes -- Notes -- References -- Index.
"This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of geoeconomics in International Relations (IR). It offers an accessible overview of the most important approaches, including their history, means and ends, methodology, ideological underpinnings, normative aspects, and practical relevance. Exploring the forgotten history of geoeconomics, and revealing its different meanings and usages over time, the author clearly differentiates geoeconomics from geopolitics on a conceptual level. This thorough examination of contemporary conceptions identifies shortcomings in the current understanding of geoeconomics and proposes a reconceptualization of the concept within a neoliberal framework, increasing its empirical usefulness and analytical value. By contrasting neoliberal geoeconomics with neorealist geoeconomics the book highlights the normative implications of both approaches, providing policy analysts and makers with valuable insights into the topic. This volume will be an important reference guide for understanding the concept of geoeconomics and a must-read for students and researchers of international relations, international political economy, economics, and political science, as well as professionals, such as policy makers and politicians"--
Collective self-defence involves the use of military force to aid a state that is the innocent victim of aggression. However, it has often been abusively invoked as a pretext and risks escalating conflicts. Green analyses fundamental questions about the conceptual nature of collective self-defence and its legal requirements.
The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development is a unique overview of the field of international law and development, examining how normative beliefs and assumptions around development are instantiated in law, and critically examining disciplinary frameworks, competing agendas, legal actors and institutions, and alternative futures.
"This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations. This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes that explain this fundamental change. The contributors trace how digital disruption changes the international world we live in, ranging from security to economics, from human rights advocacy to deep fakes, and from diplomacy to international law. The book makes two sets of contributions. First, it shows that the ongoing digital revolution profoundly changes every major dimension of international politics. Second, focusing on the interplay of technology, agency and order, it provides a framework for explaining these changes. The book also provides a map for adjusting the study of international politics to studying International Relations, making a case for upgrading, augmenting and rewiring the discipline. Theory follows practice in International Relations, but if the discipline wants to be able to meaningfully analyse the present and come up with plausible scenarios for the future, it must not lag too far behind major transformations of the world that it studies. This book facilitates that theoretical journey. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-politics, politics and technology, and International Relations"--
"This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theories and recent debates on international political economy (IPE). It illustrates the theoretical ideas of the discipline and provides an in-depth understanding of regional and global political economy. The book focusses on the functioning of states and the economy within the perspective of world politics. It explores the theories realism, liberalism, liberal interdependence, hegemonic stability and dependency vis-à-vis the contemporary global economic and political scenario. It provides a historical overview into the developments in the field and study of international political economy, institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade organization, the effects of globalization, movement of capital and the contested relationship between human development and democracy. The book examines the effects of neoliberal policies on the functioning of states and highlights the challenges and dilemmas of prioritizing development especially for developing countries. The author also looks at regional formations like the EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, SAARC, APEC and BRICS and their contributions in political and economic cooperation and trade. The book will be useful to the students, researchers and faculty working in the field of political economy, international relations, economics, political science and development studies"--
This open access book aims to emphasize the potential for Japan, Europe and Indo-Pacific countries including the US to respond to shared domestic and international challenges on finding joint ways to uphold and develop the liberal international order (LIO) in the Asian Pacific region and the world. It explores how these countries and the region (the EU) can work together to promote solidarity and cooperation to advance democratic standards and rules-based norms globally. The US understands the LIO in a political sense and centers its focus on democracy, aiming to build a coalition of democracies opposed to China and Russia which represent a kind of authoritarian axis. The US aims both to defend the LIO and respond to the China challenge and to build a coalition of countries that will do both. In contrast European countries aim at defending the "rules-based order"—a term preferred because they fear that the concept of the LIO might alienate or antagonize non-democratic countries. They face a dilemma between working with China to reform the LIO or, in seeking to defend it from China, excluding China. Germany and France differ regarding whether to play a passive or active role in the Indo-Pacific, the former choosing to preserve peace and stability for continued exports, and, until recently, doing little to contribute to security. Its views echo those of the ASEAN countries, which are unable or unwilling to take an active role in protecting the LIO. On the contrary France, along with the UK, actively carries out presence operations in the Indo-Pacific. Rather than upholding US dominance, France supports a multipolar order that will also reduce China's influence in the region, with France acting as a balancing power and offering an alternative to the choice between China and the United States. Japan and India show interest in European views with the former leaning more toward its allies, the US and AUKUS, and the latter seeing Europe less as an alternative to the status quo and more as a complement of QUAD. This book concludes that the US needs to build coalitions rather than forcing allies and neighbors to choose sides, while Japan, Asian countries, and Europeans should more actively reform the LIO.
Setting the stage -- The evolution of international law in relation to the rights of indigenous peoples to lands, marine space, and natural resources : a historical sketch -- International human rights law and indigenous peoples : norms relevant to the rights to lands and natural resources -- Application of international human rights law to the rights of indigenous peoples in relation to marine space and marine resources -- Rights and obligations of coastal states with respect to marine living resources under the law of the sea -- Interaction between the human rights of indigenous peoples and the law of the sea -- The rights of indigenous peoples to harvest marine mammals -- Beyond international maritime boundaries : traditional fishing rights of indigenous peoples within maritime zones of other states.
Mittlere Mächte sind einflussreiche Akteure in der internationalen Politik. Auf den Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine oder auf den Gaza-Krieg reagierten gewichtige Staaten Lateinamerikas oder Afrikas - so Brasilien oder Südafrika - nicht im Einklang mit westlicher Politik. Die zwölf mittleren Mächte, die in dieser Studie behandelt und auch als middle-ground powers, Mittelmächte oder swing states bezeichnet werden, weisen zwar viele Unterschiede auf. Doch wird ihnen allen eine (potentiell) wichtige regionale oder internationale Rolle und Handlungsmacht zugeschrieben, die sie von anderen Staaten abhebt. Sie bringen eine spezifische Kombination von Merkmalen mit wie Geographie, Demographie, Wirtschaftsleistung, Rohstoffreichtum, militärische Macht oder politische Ausstrahlung. Die Kooperation und der Austausch mit diesen mittleren Mächten sind für Deutschland und die EU von großer Bedeutung, sei es um gemeinsam Krisen zu begegnen, Politiken zu gestalten oder geoökonomische Risiken durch Diversifizierung der außenpolitischen Beziehungen zu minimieren. Die zwölf Staaten teilen drei Gemeinsamkeiten: die überragende Bedeutung wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung, wobei Fragen von sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Gleichheit und globaler Gerechtigkeit zentral sind; die starke Betonung von Stabilität und Sicherheit, wobei in deren Interessenhorizonten das Völkerrecht und seine liberale Interpretation an Bindungskraft verliert; ein Streben nach strategischer Autonomie, um wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Regimestabilität durch flexible Kooperationen und Optionenvielfalt im Sinne nationaler Belange abzusichern. Mit Blick auf zentrale Politikfelder - UN-Reform, globale Rohstoff-, Energie-, Klima-, Gesundheits- und Migrationspolitik - zeigt Deutschland ein differenziertes Verhältnis zu mittleren Mächten. Nicht zuletzt der ausgeprägte Transaktionalismus und die Tendenz zum »multi-alignment« mittlerer Mächte zwingen Deutschland dazu, sich stärker mit den materiellen Interessen und ordnungspolitischen Vorstellungen mittlerer Mächte auseinanderzusetzen. Das müsste sich in der Konzeption und Durchführung von Dialogformaten, bi- und internationalen Verhandlungen vor allem über Regulierungsfragen und neue Lastenteilungen niederschlagen. (Autorenreferat)
Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach is a comprehensive yet critical introduction to the diverse field of public international law.
Bringing together a unique range of perspectives from around the world and from different theoretical approaches, this textbook introduces both the overarching questions and doctrines of public international law, as well as the specialised sub-fields. These include emerging fields such as international law in cyberspace, international migration law, and the international climate regime. The book includes numerous case examples, references to debates and controversies in the literature, and focus sections addressing topics in more depth.
Featuring an array of pedagogical features, including learning objectives, suggested further reading and resources, and QR codes to interactive exercises, this book is ideal for students studying this field for the first time and also offers something new for students who would like to deepen their knowledge via a diverse and engaging range of perspectives.
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In Assisting International Justice, Buitelaar reveals the conditions under which UN peacekeepers address impunity in their mission areas. He presents an original single-country case study of assistance provided by the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a plausibility probe of other peace operations in ICC situation countries.
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.