scholarly journals Logistic Сompanies and their Influence on World Politics

2013 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
A. S. Burnasov
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Modern System

In article the history and the modern factors providing success of the logistic companies is considered. Questions of their participation in modern system of the international relations and world politics are especially considered. The main tendencies which have created the international logistic companies are given, key factors of their influence on participants of the international relations are studied. The assessment is given to interaction of the state and the logistic companies

Trade and economic wars of the USA and PRC: reasons of the crisis, chronology, ideology, consequences for world politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
S. Makhammaduly ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Brief Assessment ◽  
China Market ◽  
Modern System ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Trade War

With the growing tension in commercial relations between the USA and China, market operators are seriously concerned about the further strengthening of this trend. The purpose of this article was the need to find out the reasons leading international trade relations to escalate and identify possible strategies for overcoming the state of conflict, each of which is given a brief assessment. Conclusions are drawn about the significance of the trade war and its impact on the modern system of international relations.

International Relations and Comparative Politics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidya Nadkarni ◽  
J. Michael Williams
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Interstate System ◽  
The One ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

Both the political science fields of International Relations (IR) and Comparative Politics (CP) developed around a scholarly concern with the nature of the state. IR focused on the nature, sources, and dynamics of inter-state interaction, while CP delved into the structure, functioning, and development of the state itself. The natural synergies between these two lines of scholarly inquiry found expression in the works of classical and neo-classical realists, liberals, and Marxists, all of whom, to varying degrees and in varied ways, recognized that the line dividing domestic and international politics was not hermetically sealed. As processes of economic globalization, on the one hand, and the globalization of the state system, on the other, have expanded the realm of political and economic interaction, the need for greater cross-fertilization between IR and CP has become even more evident. The global expansion of the interstate system has incorporated non-European societies into world politics and increased the salience of cultural and religious variables. These dynamics suggest that a study of cultures, religions, and histories, which shape the world views of states and peoples, is therefore necessary before assessments can be made about how individual states may respond to varied global pressures in their domestic and foreign policy choices.

The State of the Japanese State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavan McCormack
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
Client State ◽  
Constitutional Revision

In this his latest work, Gavan McCormack argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his radicalism continues to shake the country and will have consequences not easy now to predict. The significance of this book will be widely recognized, particularly by those researching contemporary world politics, international relations and the history of modern Japan. McCormack here revisits and reassesses his previous formulations of Japan as construction state (doken kokka), client state (zokkoku), constitutional pacifist state, and colonial state (especially in its relationship to Okinawa). He adds a further chapter on what he calls the ‘rampant state’, that outlines the increasingly authoritarian or ikkyo (one strong) turn of the Abe government in the fifth year of its second term. And he critically addresses the Abe agenda for constitutional revision.

Forum Introduction: Is the state a person? Why should we care?

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
International Society ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Precise Role

In 1959, Arnold Wolfers published an essay entitled ‘The Actors In World Politics’ in which he suggested that the importance of the state as an actor, although undeniable, needed to be submitted to ‘empirical analysis’ and clearer theorisation if its precise role was to be ascertained. Unfortunately, almost no one seems to have heeded his advice, and the question about what we might call the person-hood of the state virtually vanished from the agenda of mainstream International Relations (IR) theory. Realists, neorealists, neoliberal institutionalists, theorists of international society, and even many Marxists were content to treat states as, in effect, big people, endowed with perceptions, desires, emotions, and the other attributes of person-hood. Significantly, they persisted in these practices even though they often admitted that – in Robert Gilpin's words – ‘strictly speaking . . . only individuals and individuals joined together into various types of coalitions can be said to have interests’ and therefore really be actors.

Constructivist Analysis of Independence of Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Tripuresh Pathak
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Binding Potential ◽  
Question Mark ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World

The Independence of Bangladesh was one of the most important event to have occurred in the World Politics of 20th Century. It was not just dismemberment of the then biggest Muslim State in terms of Population, but was also a great question mark on the survival of the state that was founded only on the basis of Religion. Constructivism is an approach in International Relations that contends that Reality is inter-subjective and is constructed through the interaction of different players and institutions. This Research Paper makes an in-depth analysis of different factors that played important role in creation of Bangladesh. The two Nation theory on which Pakistan was founded has been dealt in this paper. The value of given identity depends upon its number and the binding potential of an identity is more in case of identity being in substantive minority than when the identity is in majority. The colonial construct of labelling the entire community as either martial or coward was also responsible for the crisis. The lack of democratic development has also been highlighted as it reduced the capability of Pakistani state in dealing with aspirations of people of East Pakistan. The paper also seeks to critically analyze the role of India in formation of Bangladesh.

Parties, Pavilions and Protests: The Heteronomous World Politics of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-61
Author(s):  
Julia Bethwaite ◽  
Anni Kangas
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Different Types ◽  
A Site ◽  
Venice Biennale

This paper focuses on the role of contemporary art in international relations and world politics. In IR, art is often examined within the framework of cultural diplomacy, country branding, and soft power, or approached as a site of resistance. We argue that the concept of heteronomy offers an alternative conceptual framework for analysing contemporary art in world politics. It highlights the interaction of various fields such as art, commerce, the state and media. We concretise this approach with an analysis of the Venice Biennale. We show that the Biennale is heteronomous in the sense of being an arena where actors from various fields struggle for power by accumulating different types of capital. We focus our analysis on the Russian national pavilion in 2011–2015 and show how the efforts of the country's elite to legitimise its position intertwined with the projects of the state, sponsors, artists, curators and art market actors.

scholarly journals Non-state Actors, Terrorism and the New Global Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aituaje Irene Pogoson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Security ◽  
International System ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
Multiplier Effect ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Global Events ◽  
State Actors

The reality that terrorists are increasingly enjoying a force-multiplier effect in both national and international realms is the preoccupation of this paper. The traditional thinking about international relations premised on the state as the primary actor in international politics is being greatly challenged as opposition to the supremacy of the state in international system by violent non state actors have become more rampant. Global events demonstrate how the influence of non-state actors and individuals is growing in world politics, assisted by an environment in which the flow of both information and disinformation enables the adoption of narratives that are not particularly based on sound facts and objective knowledge. The implication is that those involved in national and international security in the 21st century will need to formulate and re-strategize more effective, less military propelled ways and means that address the individual’s capacity to distinguish between rational and irrational in order to positively influence the forces that trigger the rise of such extremism in the first place. Until that is achieved, the threats from violent non state actors will continue to challenge some states as the terrorist groups align with others to create a convoluted and perplexing set of geopolitical and organizational networks that will prove difficult to unravel

scholarly journals International relations in the time of theoretical pluralism: On the state of the discipline and its main debates at the beginning of the 21st century

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 181-205
Author(s):  
Marko Kovacevic
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
New Research ◽  
Theoretical Pluralism

This paper takes on the key discussions in the contemporary International Relations and critically presents and evaluates the insights of the theorists in the content of the latter while systematizing them in an analytical framework based on Wendt?s ontological turn and inspired by Roseanu?s reconceptualization of change in the world politics post?Cold War. Being aware of the complexity of such a task, the framework shall, if anything, offer a reader a map that facilitates our navigation in a seemingly vast and tangled up world of IR theory, its enduring contentions and new research themes. A special attention is paid to a characterization of the discipline in the state of ?theoretical peace?, with respect to the meanings and implications of today?s prevalent theoretical pluralism and ecclecticism in IR. It remains to be seen in what ways the IR community will answer to these perspectives, whether it chooses to go for a bolder dialogue in an early phase of theoretical pluralism, or it will work more on ?critical problem solving? of the issues that are delivered daily by turbulent world politics.

Can the bereaved speak? Emotional governance and the contested meanings of grief after the Berlin terror attack

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Koschut
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Terror Attack ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Contested Meanings ◽  
Expression Of Emotions ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Emotions that run through relations of power are complex and ambivalent, inviting resistance and opposition as much as compliance. While the literature in International Relations broadly accepts emotions as an intrinsic element of power and governance, relatively little attention has been given to situations when the emotional meanings of “the state” are openly contested. This essay highlights a situation in which emotional meanings are contested, or what I refer to as affective sites of contestation: situations and events where rules and norms about the proper expression of emotions are challenged, resisted, and potentially redefined. It is the ambivalence and alternation of particular emotional meanings, which, I will suggest, makes emotions an object of contestation in world politics. Whenever “official” emotions are contested from “below,” “the state” itself, representing a national project, is called into question, potentially transforming the relationship between citizens and the state. Building on the works of sociologist Mabel Berezin and others, this essay develops the ideal types of “the secure state” and “communities of feeling” as analytical prisms to reconstruct the political contestation of emotional meanings, pertaining to how collective grief is expressed after a terror attack.

International theory in a post-paradigmatic era: From substantive wagers to scientific ontologies

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson ◽  
Daniel H. Nexon
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
International Theory

Concerns about the end of International Relations theory pivot around at least three different issues: the fading of the ‘paradigm wars’ associated with the 1990s and early 2000s; the general lack of any sort of ‘great debate’ sufficient to occupy the attention of large portions of the field; and claims about the vibrancy of middle-range theorizing. None of these are terribly helpful when it comes to assessing the health of International Relations theory. We argue that international theory involves scientific ontologies of world politics: topographies of entities, processes, mechanisms, and how they relate to one another. Understood this way, the state of International Relations theory looks strong: there is arguably more out there than ever before. Ironically, this cornucopia helps explain concerns regarding the end of International Relations theory. In the absence of a ‘great debate,’ let alone ways of organizing contemporary International Relations theory, this diversity descends into cacophony. We submit that three major clusters of international theory are emerging: choice-theoretic, experience-near, and social-relational. These clusters map onto two major axes of contention: (1) the degree that actors should be treated as autonomous from their environment; and (2) the importance of thickly contextual analysis. These disputes are both field-wide and high-stakes, even if we do not always recognize them as such.

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