The Slide Backwards

2022 ◽  
pp. 40-62
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
World Order ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World

This chapter will examine the contemporary world order that has been characterized by global cooperation and interdependence, which have spurred a backlash of nationalist ideologies around the world as a reaction to increased immigration and perceived degradation of the cultural identity of the homeland. The chapter will also highlight contemporary issues facing the global community that international cooperation will be necessary to resolve.

scholarly journals CONTAMPORARY GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT’S FACTORS

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Irina Afanasyeva
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Foreign Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global World

At the turn of the third Millennium, significant changes have affected the global world. The contemporary world economy, the world order, international organizational and economic relations are all involved in the intensive process of global development. There is no country in the world that is able to form and implement foreign economic policy without taking into account the behavior of other participants within the world economic system. Scientific and practical analysis of the subject area of the existing research has predetermined the key objective of this article – to determine the factors of contemporary global development.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) and its Aftermath in Contemporary World Affairs

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sanjmyatav Bazar
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

As the conception of security consolidates our prosperity to evolve on this planet that revolutionises our social norms and values from time-to-time, it also encounters threats and challenges that could potentially deliver a massive impact to the world. For instance, such security dilemmas would result in transforming the world order, international relations or even the lives of billions. This is the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic of 2019 (COVID-19) and it has changed the world for an indefinite period. Thus, it has forced us into a new phase, new norms and a new world. This paper will examine how this coronavirus outbreak has political, economic and social impacts on the world order through the lens of international relations.

scholarly journals Empire, Tianxia and Great Unity: A historical examination and future vision of China’s international communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Zhengrong Hu
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Dominant Structure ◽  
Future Vision ◽  
Historical Examination

A theoretical imagination of the world order and global landscape is necessary for China’s international communication. ‘Empire – nation state’, the dominant structure in the contemporary world entails the logic of imperialism. However, the perspective of ‘the world’ (Tianxia; 天下) in ancient China introduced alternative theoretical challenges. Chinese scholars have been devoted to developing a vision of a society of ‘Great Unity’ (Datong; 大同) over the past century. Based on historical exanimation, this article aims to explore new approaches of China’s international communication.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN TATANAN SOSIAL MELALUI MORALITAS PEMBUMIAN AJARAN TASAWUF

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Said Aqil Siradj
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
World Order ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Character Of God

<p>Abstrak: Perkembangan dunia kontemporer memperlihatkan kecemasan global umat manusia. Dengan kemampuan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, tidak jarang manusia Modern melakukan hal-hal yang membahayakan kemanusiaan secara umum. Islam, dengan pandangan batiniahnya, menempatkan manusia sebagai makhluk Ilahiyah yang memiliki fungsi menjelmakan cahaya Ketuhanan di dalam kehidupan. Tulisan ini berusaha memperlihatkan bahwa pembumian ajaran-ajaran sufistik merupakan langkah signifikan dalam mengarahkan tatanan kehidupan dunia yang ramah, anggun dan penuh rahmat bagi sekalian alam. Penulis menyimpulkan bahwa bertasawuf pada hakikatnya adalah aktivitas berupa kesadaran manusia yang paling dalam tentang hubungan manusia dengan Tuhan, lingkungan dan sesamanya, yang terilhami oleh kualitas asmâ‘ dan shifat Allah dan kemudian terwujud dalam perilaku sosialnya.</p><p> </p><p>Abstract: Developing Social Order through the Morality of the Application of Tasawuf Teachings. The rapid development of contemporary world results in global anxiety of humankind. With the prosperity of scince and technology, modern man has often performed actions that are against humanity in general. Islam with its esoteric perspective places man as godly creature functioning to existentiate the light of the Divine in life. In this writing is it is attempted to show that the application of sufistic teachings is a significant step in directing a friendly and peaceful life of the world order, merciful of God necessary for the whole creatures. The author concludes that in reality, applying tasawuf is an activity that reflect man’s deep consciousness of his relationship with God, the environment and his fellow man inspired by the quality of the names and character of God which are then persevered in the social activities.</p><p><br />Kata Kunci: tasawuf,‘irfani, moralitas,dzawq<br /><br /></p>

scholarly journals At Home in the World: Wandering Earth, Environmentalism, and Reimagined Homelands

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
World Order ◽  
Chinese Film ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Original Novella ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Based on a 2000 novella by Cixin Liu with the same title, Frant Gwo’s 2019 film Wandering Earth has been celebrated as China’s first big-budget science fiction film. As a Chinese film with a global theme that simultaneously targets both a domestic and an international audience, accordingly, the work invites a reflection on the relationship between the local and the global—on how we understand the concept of home, and what it might mean to be home in the world. This essay, accordingly, examines three intersecting ways in which Wandering Earth (both the film and the original novella) explores the relationship between home and the world, including the status of the Earth as an ecological system, the planet’s status as a lived environment, as well as a set of contemporary geopolitical discourses about China’s shifting position within the contemporary world order, and particularly its relationship to the Global South.

scholarly journals STATE DILEMMAS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER

2016 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
I. N. Timofeev
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
World Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Open World ◽  
Fairness And Efficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
Equity And Efficiency ◽  
The Right

The problems of the world order is often seen through the interaction of the leading centers of power. Nevertheless there is another approach, locating actorhood in the state, which forms the world order. State acts in international affairs, it has the right of legitimate violence, it also has the ability to concentrate the economic and human resources. Obviously, the nature of the state as part of the international system has an effect on the system itself, defining its key parameters. From that point of view, some questions arise: what happens to the state? What is the effect of its transformation on the contemporary world order? Why the state is changing? What hierarchy of states exists in the contemporary world order? The author proceed from the following theses. First, the nation state is no longer a universal formula of nation building. However, there is no balance between two key foundations of a legitimate order - fairness and efficiency. Second, the current world order is a mosaic of fundamentally different states. Each state is trying to find a formula for the combination of a fairness and efficiency. These formulas do not always coincide with each other, and it underlays the stability in international relations. Third, a small group of major powers still play the key role in the world order. The issue of sovereignty of many countries remains open. World order, as well as a state, is characterized by imbalance between equity and efficiency. The awaited harmony of these two principles may be spoofed again the triumph of efficiency oover justice -maintenance of order through the balance of power and a rigid hierarchy.

scholarly journals Cultural Pluralism in a Globalised World: Challenges to Peaceful Coexistence

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-531
Author(s):  
Osman Bakar
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The World ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Impact

In the following paragraphs I would like to highlight the impact of globalization on cultural pluralism and then the issue of how the resulting cultural pluralism might in turn impact the future pattern of the world order. The thrust of my theme is on emphasising the need to better understand the meaning and implications of the changing face of cultural pluralism for our contemporary world. It is also to suggest what we need to do to effectively confront the major challenges posed by the cultural pluralism landscape of our early twenty-first century. In hammering home my points I will take Malaysia as an example, which itself was created out of the cultural pluralism unleashed by the European wave of globalisation during the colonial era. Malaysia is today a Muslim-majority country with a large non-Muslim population thanks largely to what I have termed as demographic globalisation. With all the major religions of the world each having a good number of followers in the country Malaysia is truly a multi-religious society. It is also a good example of a truly multi-ethnic country boasting of dozens of ethnic groups. For more than 50 years now Malaysia has been struggling to create a pluralistic and yet united modern nation out of its ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity. Its successes and failures are all there for everyone to see.  

scholarly journals The Relevance of Bandung Spirit in the Contemporary Global Trade Order

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Rio Nurhasdy ◽  
Rizki Rahmadini Nurika ◽  
Septian Nur Yekti
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
World Order ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
New Order ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Social Law ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Systems Of Domination

AbstrakKonferensi Bandung sudahdiadakan 60 tahun yang lalu. Kolonisasi telah resmi menghilang, Perang Dingin telah berakhir, dan Gerakan Non-Blok telah hampir kehilangan raison d'etre. Namun, sistem serupa dominasi kekuatan dalam tatanan dunia masih bertahan, perang terus mengancam kemanusiaan, dan kelaparan massal, penyakit, dan kemiskinan masih menjadi ciri sebagian besar negara di dunia. Ketidakadilan telah muncul dalam bentuk yang lebih canggih dengan dimensi yang lebih besar seperti sosial, hukum, dan ekonomi. Sebuah sistem dominasi dalam tatanan dunia dan ketidakadilan saat ini dapat ditemukan dalam konteks perdagangan global. Rezim dipelopori oleh Organisasi Perdagangan Dunia (WTO) sebagai tatanan baru telah meliberalisasi belahan dunia dengan menawarkan beberapa fungsi dan tujuan bermanfaat bagi negara, baik Utara dan Selatan. Bahkan, perintah ini tidak selalu membawa manfaat bagi mereka, terutama untuk negara-negara kurang berkembang yang sebagian besar berasal dari Selatan. Mereka dieksploitasi dan hanya mendapatkan sedikit manfaat dari liberalisasi perdagangan sementara negara-negara maju menuai banyak manfaat. Sebagai respon terhadap dunia kontemporer, makalah ini mencoba untuk menganalisis rasa perlunya Bandung Spiritsebagai wujud kehadiran postkolonial asli dan masa depan untuk Selatan. Pertanyaan mendasarnya adalah mengapa sistem dominasi masih ada hingga sekarang, di mana kekuasaan hegemonik dalam sistem perdagangan ditempati oleh Utara. Makalah ini juga mempertanyakan bagaimana Bandung Spriti perlu ditafsirkan karena tidak semua norma dan nilai-nilai yang ada di dalam Bandung Spirit bisa memungkinkan Selatan untuk memecahkan masalah global, terutama untuk isu-isu perdaganganKata Kunci: bandung spirit, liberalisasi perdagangan, selatan, WTO AbstractIt has been 60 years after the Bandung Conference. Colonization has officially disappeared, the Cold War has ended, and the Non-Aligned Movement has almost lost its raison d’être. However, similar systems of domination by the powerful in the world order still persist, wars continue to threaten humanity, and mass hunger, diseases, and poverty still characterize many parts of the world. Injustice has appeared in more sophisticated forms and larger dimensions such social, law, and economy. A system of domination in the world order and injustice today can be found in the global trade context. The regime pioneered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a new order has liberalized parts of the world by offering some beneficial functions and objectives for countries, both North and South. In fact, this order doesn’t always bring benefits for them, especially for less developed countries which mostly come from South. They were exploited and only get little benefits from trade liberalization while developed countries reap many benefits. As a response to the contemporary world, this paper attempts to analyze the sense of the necessity of Bandung Spirit for a genuine postcolonial present and future for South. This paper questions why system of domination still exists today, where hegemonic power in trading system is occupied by North. This paper also questions how the Bandung Spirit needs to be interpreted today because not all normsand values lies within the Bandung Spirit could enable South to solve global problem, especially for trade issues.Keywords: bandung spirit, trade liberalization, south, WTO

scholarly journals The Poem “Hagia Sophia” by I. Bunin: Architectural “Cosmism” in the Structure of Lyrical Plot

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
A. A. Chevtaev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
World Order ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Hagia Sophia ◽  
Plot Structure ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Universe

The article is devoted to the poetics of the poem “Hagia Sophia” (1906) by I. A. Bunin in the aspect of the plot representation of artistic ontology. The ontological basis of I. Bunin’s poetry and prose is the cosmic worldview, which determines the specifics of the construction of his artistic universe. The formation of the ideology of “cosmism” in Bunin’s work occurs at the beginning of the 20 th century, when the poet intensively learns the experience of other religions and cultures. The feeling of being as a cosmic unity of the world order is affirmed in his “oriental” lyrics of 1903–1907. At the same time, the East appears as a unified semantic space that equalizes various religious and historical and cultural formations in terms of values. The poem “Hagia Sophia” is included in the corpus of “oriental” poems by the poet and reveals his creative perception of the Constantinople Cathedral of Hagia Sophia (mosque). Structural-semiotic analysis of this poetic text shows that its plot construction explicates the logic of Bunin’s “grasping” of the being essence of the temple space. In the process of unfolding the lyrical plot of the poem, the contemplated process of the “evening” Muslim worship, the “morning” solar pacification of the temple and the “dove” appeal to the life forces of the universe are combined in an integral system of the world order. The convergence of these vital manifestations of the universe in the space of the temple becomes the central event in the plot structure of the text, which explicates the lyric subject’s awareness of the cosmic unity of the created world. The reception of the lyrical subject of Hagia Sophia is aimed at understanding not so much the Islamic religious and cultural identity as the fullness of life that testifies to itself in the sacred space of the temple. The eternity of the cosmos, which appears in the architectural locus, is thought of as an axiological peak in self-determination on the axis “man – universe”. The unfolding of the text’s plot structure, which represents through the oppositions “evening – morning”, “darkness – light”, “speech – silence”, “man – dove” the events of striving for the transformation of being, confirms the idea of the ontological unity of the vital manifestations of the world order. It is concluded that in the poem “Hagia Sophia” by I. Bunin the architectural world of the temple embodies the ideology of “cosmism” as a convergence of anthropological and natural principles, revealing one of the aspects of the movement of Bunin’s poetics to the concept of “unified soul of the universe”.

Addressing Future Fragility: Women, Climate Change and Migration

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
Briana Mawby ◽  
Anna Applebaum
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
The World ◽  
And Migration ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change and its consequences are among the greatest challenges facing the global community, with the potential to radically alter the structures of communities, states, and international cooperation. Climate change will fundamentally reshape migration patterns around the world; as people choose to migrate to find safety and economic opportunities, their movements will affect how states manage their borders and national security and will strain further the already burdened mechanisms which help guide migration flows locally and internationally. The pressure of climate-related migration in both origin and destination communities requires rethinking international initiatives and national frameworks governing migration and resettlement. When a shock occurs, such as those caused by climate change impacts, it leaves women especially vulnerable and makes migration particularly arduous. Yet women will also be critical to determining the response to such events. In order to understand the potential impacts of climate change-related migration, it is critical to understand women’s roles and experiences. As responsive new policies and approaches are being designed, it is equally critical for women’s perspectives, needs, and expertise to be centered. This chapter provides a discussion of the gendered consequences of climate change, the legal and policy gaps that exist for understanding and addressing gendered climate change-related migration, and the role that future WPS research and analysis can play in highlighting and addressing these issues.

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