Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Position, Space and Conflict Escalation
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 358-360
ISSN: 1468-0130
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 358-360
ISSN: 1468-0130
In: Journal of global ethics, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 17-26
ISSN: 1744-9634
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 425-449
ISSN: 0304-3754
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 425-448
ISSN: 2163-3150
This article calls for greater attention to global cities in the study of world affairs so as to promote a more holistic reading of global governance as a multiscalar set of processes composed by overlapping spheres of authority. The article shows how international studies have been insufficiently sensitive to the strategic role of global cities and how they are capable of acting on the global stage by exerting network power. This sheds light on the multilayered governmentality of global governance from an urban perspective. Looking through a lens of global cities, it is argued, will enable theorists to connect macro processes to micro dynamics across a far wider spectrum of governance and political agencies.
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 63, S. 178-180
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: The Whitehead journal of diplomacy and international relations, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 111-121
ISSN: 1538-6589
The international system faces two antithetical transnational forces. On the one hand, there is globalization, and on the other a prevalent rise in nationalist and sovereign claims emerging as a backlash to the growing net of transnational relations. Subsequently and following the revolution in individualization since the Cold War, individuals now have more than one social affiliation, and their affiliative choices are taken increasingly autonomously. With their presence in processes of foreign affairs, public demands can no longer be overlooked. The present article discusses the governmental and NGO actors of fundamental freedom across the globe, international advocacy aimed at either reaching global agreements, or at pointing out violations, and public diplomacy as the gray area between human rights and diplomatic practice. The second part of the article has for subject the interplay between foreign policy and human rights, and the improvement of human rights mediation. O. van Zijl
In: SAIS Review, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 175-178
In: The SAIS review of international affairs / the Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Band 29, Heft 2, S. 175-178
ISSN: 1945-4724
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 94-97
ISSN: 1468-0130
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 461-480
ISSN: 0304-3754
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 461-480
ISSN: 2163-3150
Many authors have issued anxious warnings about a disturbing "backlash against democracy"—this in spite of the growing affirmation of democracy as an international standard against which other systems are measured. This article considers the role of democracy promotion, which is understood as activities aimed at assisting in consolidating, disseminating, and advocating democratic governance in this context. The theoretical framework in which the promotion debate occurs is highlighted in order to show how the concept of "democracy" is socially constructed and interpreted in different ways by the various promoters. The article examines the main targets of this activity (state structures and civil societies) and compares two major supporters of democracy (the European Union and the United States). On this basis, claims about a "democratic rollback" are challenged by reference to hybrid regimes that contrast the idea of democracy with that of civilization. The backlash is better understood as resistence to some of the methods of promotion and some promoters, rather than as being against democracy itself, and the article holds that the best way to promote good governance worldwide is through an oblique, cosmopolitan or European-style democracy that fosters the multiple and processual grounds on which democratic polities can flourish.