Climate Change as Spatial Change: Impetus to Rethink State Obligations and Embrace Supra-Sovereign Knowledge
In: Geopolitics, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1557-3028
In: Geopolitics, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1557-3028
This book explores civil-military relations in Asia. With chapters on individual countries in the region, it provides a comprehensive account of the range of contemporary Asian practices under conditions of abridged democracy, soft authoritarianism or complete totalitarianism.
In: Global studies quarterly: GSQ, Band 2, Heft 1
ISSN: 2634-3797
Abstract
The ancient Silk Roads are reputed for demonstrating a more tolerant Asia–Europe interaction than is believed possible today among modern nation-states. What is the Silk Roads' contribution to global thought? Along the original Silk Roads, a cosmopolitan ethic of hospitality to foreigners emerged from a confluence of hostile secular attitudes as well as accommodation of differences within each religion's conception of ecumenism and standardization. This is manifest in the writings of Marco Polo, a quintessential traveller along the ancient overland Silk Road, assorted Christian monks serving as Papal representatives to the Mongols, and two Buddhist pilgrims, Fa-Hsien and I-Tsing of China. In treating these underappreciated writings as contributions to global thought from Asia, the author identifies three indelible elements that add up to an amorphous cosmopolitanism in progress: the role of violence in managing social order, piety through ritual, and the custom of travellers and hosts exchanging gifts.
The first reference work to explore the 2000-year history of political realism and reassess its place in today's worldDownload an ebook of the chapter abstracts and notes on contributors (pdf)Political realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs.Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order.Key FeaturesThe first volume to offer a full, balanced guide to Political Realism: its history and its normative role in international affairsCovers the main thinkers, from Thucydides through Niccolò Machiavelli to Isaiah BerlinEngages with the major foreign policy issues of our times, such as strategic deterrence, nationalism, terrorism, cyber security, climate change, the open society and religionConsiders political realism in non-Western contexts, including Israel, Russia and ChinaIncludes political realism's ground-up growth and interpretation outwith Western contextsContributorsUriel Abulof, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.Christopher Adair-Toteff, Zeppelin University, Germany.Erica Benner, Yale University, USA.John Bew, King's College London, UK.Todd Breyfogle, Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., USA.Joshua Cherniss, Georgetown University, USA.Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.Lindsay P. Cohn, U.S. Naval War College, USA.Kody W. Cooper, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA.Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani, Durham University, UK.Markus Fischer, California State University, Fullerton, USA.Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.Stuart Gray, Politics at Washington and Lee University, USA.Robert Howse, New York University School of Law, USA.David Martin Jones, University of Queensland, Australia and King's College London, UK.Menno R. Kamminga, University of Groningen, Netherlands.Peter Iver Kaufman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and University of Richmond, USA.David Kerr, Durham University, UK.Paul Kirkland, Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA.Douglas B. Klusmeyer, American University, Washington, DC, USA.Konstantinos Kostagiannis, University of Maastricht, Netherlands.Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas at Austin, USA.Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA.David Mayers, Boston University, USA.Kenneth B. McIntyre, Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, USA.Neville Morley, University of Exeter, UK.John Mueller, Mershon Center for International Security Studies and Ohio State University, USA.Masashi Okuyama, International Geopolitica
In: Global change, peace & security, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 177-199
ISSN: 1478-1166
In: Asian journal of comparative politics: AJCP, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 3-9
ISSN: 2057-892X
The subject of economic security has always been bandied about in academic discourse since the emergence of an interconnected world economy. With ASEAN states getting increasingly enmeshed in free trade agreements, and common market like arrangements, it is imperative to explore what economic security means for national governments today. The shocks of the 2017-20 Donald Trump presidency of the USA and the COVID-19 pandemic impart timely momentum for inquiring after economic security. If the USA currently embodies the idea of zero-sum economic logics as the way forward into the twenty first century, it becomes even more urgent that Asians re-examine the degrees of openness needed to sustain growth and prosperity. Contributors to this Special Section will not only examine government-to-government trade interactions, the prospects of Islamic Finance and gender inequalities will also be analysed in terms of how they can make or break conventional notions of economic security.
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 85, S. 217-218
ISSN: 1835-8535
Malta and Singapore attained full independence nearly a year apart: 21 September 1964 and 9 August 1965 respectively. Yet today, despite being self-classified as small states, Singapore has been treated as a developed economy by the OECD and is widely acknowledged to be a 'behind the scenes' helmsman of the regional security architecture in the Asia-Pacific. Malta, in contrast, appears to be a relative diplomatic bystander enunciating its own principles of sovereign difference, calling for EU and Mediterranean regional forums to address non- traditional security issues, and focussing heavily on growing a service economy in finance, tourism, electronics and freight transhipment. Singapore's growth trajectory takes on these areas as well, but also experiments with designs to establish itself as a transportation and communications hub for Asia. This preliminary comparison of Malta and Singapore as small states will proceed through three categories of examination: stabilising the geopolitical environment for growth; experiments in integration into a global economy; and the idea of a globally branded small state. ; peer-reviewed
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In: Asian perspective, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 179-208
ISSN: 2288-2871
In: Springer eBook Collection
1. Critical Perspectives from Outside China on the Belt and Road Initiative: An Introduction -- Part I Imagining the Silk Roads Through Philosophy and History -- 2. Squaring the Circle: China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) and the Ancient Silk Roads -- 3. Mercantile Harmony: The Ancient Silk Roads as Intercultural Meeting Points Amongst Monks, Pilgrims and Merchants -- Part II Critical Geographies on the Road -- 4. The Belt and Road and the World: Why China's "One Belt, One Road" Initiative Is a Dilemma for Everyone -- 5. Infrastructure Construction as Empire Consolidation in Chinese History -- 6. Rail Developments Under the BRI -- Part III Critical Political Economy on the Road -- 7. The Belt and Road Initiative and China's Relations with Iran and Saudi Arabia: A Delicate Balancing Act -- 8. Australia and China's Belt and Road Initiative: Economic Opportunities and Geo-Strategic Concerns -- 9. Legal Challenges to the Belt and Road Initiative -- 10. Is the Economic Hegemony Moving From the United States to China?: A Historical Perspective -- 11. China's Belt and Road Initiative: China's Motivations and Its Impacts On Developing Countries -- Part IV Critical National Perspectives -- 12. US Attitudes and Reactions Towards China's "Belt and Road" Initiative -- 13. China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Challenges and Opportunities for Vietnam -- 14. Conclusion.
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: International Security in the Asia-Pacific: Transcending ASEAN Towards Transitional Polycentrism-An Introduction -- Great Power Rivalries and ASEAN: The Challenge of Managing Territorial Disputes and the Rising Temptation of Unilateralism and Bilateralism -- Neo-realist Defence Diplomacy Stretching Towards Counter-Terrorism -- Non-traditional Security Threats: An Emerging Front for International Rivalry, Institutional Governance and Manoeuvres Among Non-state Actors -- Organizing the Study of Asia-Pacific Security: Acknowledging Polycentrism in Theory and Praxis -- ASEAN's Centrality and Crossroads -- Part 1: The Great Powers: Going Their Own Way or Tempering Rivalry with Some Reference to ASEAN? -- Part 2: Defence Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific -- Part 3: Non-Traditional Security Threats as Security Interdependence and the Challenge to Military Missions in East Asia -- The Security Implications of Transitional Polycentrism -- References -- Chapter 2: Southeast Asia: No Longer Peripheral to Global Events -- Introduction -- New Nations Seeking Peaceful Neighbours -- Regionalism to Fill a Power Vacuum -- Geopolitical Isolation -- Historical Schisms -- Non-traditional Security -- Masters of Their Own Fate -- References -- Chapter 3: Defence and Security Cooperation in East Asia: Whither ASEAN Centrality? -- Defence Regionalization in Southeast Asia -- Defence Regionalization in East Asia -- Whither ASEAN Centrality? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: ASEAN's Limitations in Conflict Resolution -- ASEAN's Limits -- Formal Mechanism for Conflict Resolution in the Region -- Formal Mechanisms in the Form of Treaties -- The Mechanism of ASEAN Meetings on Different Levels -- Consensus -- Non-interference -- The Haze Crisis.
In: Asian journal of comparative politics: AJCP, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 219-231
ISSN: 2057-892X
According to Munshi Abdullah, the author of the Hikayat Abdullah (Annals of Abdullah), 'knowledge and skill are the ladder to riches, and riches lead to greatness. Of a truth, all things created by Allah in this world have their value which can be reckoned in terms of money; learning alone commands a price which no man can determine' (Abdullah, 1970: 40). This empowerment of ethical behaviour through the disciplining of the mind in the practice of principles frames the Hikayat's approach to the practice of mercantilism and good government in the service of commerce. This article interprets the dimensions of this 19th-century Asian vision and uncovers three themes related to the maritime Silk Road: impartial administration of law and order, beneficent autocracy and the proper prioritization of wealth and good manners.
In: Asian journal of comparative politics: AJCP, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 189-193
ISSN: 2057-892X
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 31, Heft 3-4, S. 249-271
ISSN: 1474-449X
In: Contemporary Southeast Asia, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 503-526