‘Patriot’ games? Visions of a post-liberal international order and how to keep peace

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-279
Author(s):  
Johanna Sumuvuori
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Small States ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Multilateral Cooperation ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
State Relations

Declaring the so-called Liberal International Order, and Multilateralism in general, obsolete has become fashionable after the Russian invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Among others, Russian and American leaders have emphasized competition and the uncompromising quest for the national interest as the basic and natural elements of inter-state relations. This worldview is reflected within societies throughout the world in populist nationalist movements and smacks of ‘strongman politics’ with its undertones of toxic masculinity, in which the only check against outright conflict is the balance of power.This worldview is, clearly, bad news for small states. Alternatives such as Xi Jinping’s ‘Community for the Shared Future of Mankind’ would also, at closer look, seem to refer back to the primacy of national sovereignty – in this case that of one particular state, China. Instead, small states with open economies such as Finland would prioritize strengthening multilateral cooperation and the rules-based international order. Adapting the present international order rather than abandoning it wholesale is key to overcoming these challenges. That adaptation should be driven by a constructive critique of the current state of affairs. But we also need to look critically at the ‘brave new worlds’ that populists and strongmen are promoting. An international order based on the balance of power and a search for absolute national sovereignty will rob us of the ability to overcome global threats as well as to seize opportunities provided by global civil society activism and scientific innovations.

Globalization of Economy: qualis es et quo vadis?

2011 ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
V. Pan'kov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
State Of Affairs

In a long historical perspective, the globalization of the economy is, no doubt, the future of the mankind. However, we should not overlook the contradiction that has dramatically intensified as a result of the 2008-2009 recession. This is the contradiction between globalization as an objective process with mostly positive effects and its model that is being implemented today (namely, the policy of globalization). Furthermore, we can propose a number of important arguments in favor of a statement that at the current state of affairs the globalization has exhausted itself. Nobody can exclude a short-term braking down of the globalization progress nor even a U-turn, albeit temporary, to a de-globalization. Under unfavorable circumstances such a reverse movement can cover the entire period up to 2020. The author states that transnational corporations are the main subject of the world economy which will the most actively oppose such a development.

scholarly journals Situación actual de la gestación por sustitución

2014 ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
Silvia Vilar González
Keyword(s):  
Current State ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Do So

Premio de artículos jurídicos «GARCÍA GOYENA» (Curso 2013-2014). Segundo accésit La gestación por sustitución es una de las últimas opciones a la que acuden aquellas personas que quieren formar una familia y que no disponen de otros medios para ello. En España, es una práctica prohibida y sancionada con la nulidad de pleno derecho. No obstante, la viabilidad para lograr la inscripción de la filiación del nacido, hace que muchos sigan optando por ella. El presente trabajo realiza un estudio de la situación legal existente tanto en nuestro país como en el resto del mundo, con mención a los múltiples problemas que los interesados pueden encontrar a lo largo de este complicado proceso.Surrogate motherhood is one of the latest options requested by couples willing to raise a family with no other means to do so. Surrogacy is illegal in Spain and regarded as null and void. Nevertheless, the viability to achieve the registration of the child’s parentage makes many people opt for it. This paper analyses the current state of affairs in our country as well as in the rest of the world, including the multiple implications involved in such a complex process.

Conclusion: Technocracy at the End of the World

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-258
Author(s):  
Anders Esmark
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Political Decision Making

Taking up the case of climate change, the conclusion considers the argument for moretechnocracy in the face of ‘the end world as we know it’. Climate change is probably the strongest case for a technocratic model of political decision-making. At the very least, insufficient political adherence to the scientific evidence on climate change is an almost commonsensical part of the problem of in the current state of affairs. While fully acknowledging this problem, the chapter argues that attention to the destructive and mutually reinforcing interplay of technocracy and populism is necessary also in to the all-important challenge of climate change.

International Order in Historical East Asia: Tribute and Hierarchy Beyond Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Kang
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Sovereign Equality ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Experience

AbstractIR theorizing about international order has been profoundly, perhaps exclusively, shaped by the Western experiences of the Westphalian order and often assumes that the Western experience can be generalized to all orders. Recent scholarship on historical East Asian orders challenges these notions. The fundamental organizing principle in historical East Asia was hierarchy, not sovereign equality. The region was characterized by hegemony, not balance of power. This emerging research program has direct implications for enduring questions about the relative importance of cultural and material factors in both international orders and their influence on behavior—for describing and explaining patterns of war and peace across time and space, for understanding East Asia as a region made up of more than just China, and for more usefully comparing East Asia, Europe, and other regions of the world.

scholarly journals Chaos Theory: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Wuhan, China from the perspective of international relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (68) ◽  
pp. 369-384
Author(s):  
Natalia Vladimirovna Kovalevskaia ◽  
Iuliia Alexandrovna Fedoritenko ◽  
William Leahy
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Critical Essay ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

The objective of the article was to reveal the international imbalances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through the coordinates of chaos theory. Methodologically it is a critical essay based on documentary observation. To understand the current state of world politics and the balance of power in international relations, it is appropriate to use chaos theory. At the beginning of the article, the origins of chaos theory are an interdisciplinary study, and its basic concepts are introduced. The value of using chaos theory and its great potential for analysis and applications in the study of international relations is shown in the example of the 2019-2020 events in Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China (PRC). associated with the onset of a COVID-19 viral infection that has spread around the world. At the end of the article, conclusions are drawn and the strengths and weaknesses of the use of chaos theory in dialectical relation to international relations are revealed, both as a field of study and at the same time as geopolitical reality.

scholarly journals Conceptual Fundamentals of Post-Westphalian International Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12(48) (4) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Alla Kyrydon ◽  
Sergiy Troyan
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International System ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Structure Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War

Conceptual approaches to understanding the current stage of the evolution of international relations were put in place during the destruction of the bipolar world of the Cold War and the formation of new foundations of the world and international order. The distinctiveness of this process is that the collapse of the postwar system took place in peaceful conditions. Most often, two terms are used to describe the interconnectedness and interdependence of world politics after the fall of the Iron Curtain: the post-bipolar (post-westphalian) international system or international relations after the end of the Cold War. Two terms, post-bipolar international system and international relations after the end of the Cold War, have common features, which usually allows them to be used as synonyms and makes them the most popular when choosing a common comprehensive definition for the modern international relations. The collapse of the Soviet bloc and the global bipolar system put on the agenda issues that cannot be resolved within the traditional terms “poles,” “balance of power,” “configuration of the balance of power” etc. The world has entered a period of uncertainty and growing risks. the global international system is experiencing profound shocks associated with the transformation of its structure, changes in its interaction with the environment, which accordingly affects its regional and peripheral dimensions. In modern post-bipolar relations of shaky equilibrium, there is an obvious focus on the transformation of the world international order into a “post-American world” with the critical dynamics of relations between old and new actors at the global level. The question of the further evolution of the entire system of international relations in the post-bipolar world and the tendency of its transformation from a confrontational to a system of cooperation remains open.

scholarly journals Faculty Perspective on Scholarly Communication

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Field
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Current State ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract: The means and method of scholarly communication are changing as new and faster forms of communication become accessible to scholars. The potential for electronic scholarly communication via the Internet and the World Wide Web to positively affect the current state of affairs is very good. It may provide the means to address the hegemonic tendencies of the large for-profit scholarly publishers. Many matters need to be addressed though. Some of these are: copyright and ownership of intellectual property; the methods used for assessing the work of scholars; development of the communications infrastructure, both within and among institutions; and provision of equipment and services to those in the scholarly community. This paper examines these issues in the Canadian context. Résumé: Les moyens et méthodes de communication savante sont en train de changer à mesure que des formes de communication nouvelles et plus rapides deviennent accessible aux chercheurs. La communication savante électronique à l'Internet et au World Wide Web a un très fort potentiel d'avoir un impact positif sur l'état actuel des choses. En effet, la communication électronique pourrait permettre aux chercheurs de contrebalancer les tendances hégémoniques des grandes maisons d'édition académiques à but lucratif. Il est nécessaire dans ce contexte d'adresser plusieurs questions. Parmi celles-ci, il y a : le droit d'auteur et l'appartenance de propriétés intellectuelles; les méthodes utilisées pour évaluer les ouvrages académiques; le développement d'une infrastructure pour la communication, autant au sein d'institutions qu'entre celles-ci; et la fourniture d'équipement et de services à la communauté savante. Cet article examine ces questions dans un contexte canadien.

Russia’s openness to the world: The unpredicted consequences of the country’s liberalization

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 355-361
Author(s):  
Vladimir Shlapentokh
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
External World ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
State Of Affairs

The author challenges the dogma that complete openness of the country to the external world has only a positive impact on its current state of affairs and its future. He uses post-Soviet Russia to show that in several respects openness, in particularly systematic emigrations of active people from the country, creates a lot of the problems which, however, can be partially solved if society has true democratic institutions.

scholarly journals Great illusions or great transformations? Human rights and international relations a hundred years on

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-356
Author(s):  
Tim Dunne ◽  
Nicholas J Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Revisionist History ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

Human rights have been in the practice of international relations, but they have not been central to academic thinking on International Relations (IR) for most of the century since the discipline became institutionalized in 1919. We suggest two related reasons for this relative neglect by the IR community. First, the US heartland of IR prioritized other institutions of international order during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily the balance of power, diplomacy, and arms control. Second, human rights were treated with suspicion by realists in particular given their view that morality in foreign policy was potentially disruptive of international order. If the emergent discipline of IR largely ignored the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, so did the rest of the world according to the revisionist history of human rights offered by Samuel Moyn. He challenges the idea that the birth of the regime was the culmination of a 150-year struggle that began in the minds of Enlightenment thinkers and ended with a new globalized framework of rights for all. While IR was slow to come to human rights, the pace in the last three decades has quickened considerably; the area of protecting the basic right of security from violence being a case in point, where several IR scholars have been pivotal in the development of action-guiding theory. Developing a critical theme in Carr’s The Twenty Years’ Crisis 1919-1939, we consider whether these institutional developments represent great illusions or great transformations in international relations in Carr’s terms.

Back to the Future: Promoting Peace through International Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 775-792
Author(s):  
MIKAEL BAAZ
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Century Idea

The world as a whole has not been at peace since 1914, and it is definitely not at peace today. David J. Dunn argues that this state of affairs may be due, in no small part, to aspects of the conventional wisdom that informs practical foreign policy and diplomacy. For example, the ancient notion si vis pacem, para bellum [if you desire peace, prepare for war] (Vegetius) or the nineteenth century idea that argues ‘[w]e have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow’ (Lord Palmerston). These ‘insights’ neatly summarize the intellectual core of political realism; in particular, the ‘balance-of-power’ doctrine.

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