Changes of International Power Relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1421-1436
Author(s):  
Bertrand Badie
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
International Power

The Awkwardness of Australian Engagement with Asia: The Dilemmas of Australian Idea of Regionalism

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
BAOGANG HE
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Regional Institutions ◽  
International Power ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
High Level ◽  
Pacific Community

AbstractAustralia has experienced difficulties engaging with Asia-Pacific regional integration. Despite Australian attempts to punch above its weight in regional forums and to be a regional leader, it is still not regarded as a full member or as quite fitting into the region. It is an ‘awkward partner’ in the Asian context, and has experienced the ‘liminality’ of being neither here nor there. The former Rudd government's proposal for an ‘Asia Pacific Community’ (APC) by the year 2020 was a substantive initiative in Australia's ongoing engagement with Asia. It has, however, attracted a high level of criticism both at home and abroad. The main critical analysis of the proposal has focused on institutional building or architecture, or its relationship with existing regional institutions, but overlooks a host of often fraught questions about culture, norms, identities, and international power relations. The APC concept needs to be scrutinized in terms of these questions with a critical eye. This paper examines the cultural, cognitive, and normative dimensions of Rudd's proposal. It analyses four dilemmas or awkward problems that the APC faces.

scholarly journals Cooperación técnico-científica internacional en la construcción de redes de monitoreo atmosférico. El caso de Bogotá (1960-2016)/ International Technical-Scientific Cooperation in the Construction of Atmospheric Monitoring Networks. The Case of Bogotá

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Mauricio Alberto Ángel Macías ◽  
Stefania Gallini
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Monitoring Networks ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Atmospheric Monitoring ◽  
International Power ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

Las redes para el monitoreo de la calidad del aire en las ciudades se han posicionado como la tecnología útil para hacer seguimiento e intervenir sobre el peligro que trae consigo la contaminación atmosférica. La necesidad de hacer vigilancia atmosférica a escala global se ha fundamentado en la importancia de este problema ambiental para la salud pública, especialmente después de la segunda posguerra. La tecnología de monitoreo apareció en América Latina en los años sesenta, en un momento en el cual la contaminación del aire no suponía un problema mayor en la región. Aun así, se inició la vigilancia atmosférica, mediada por intereses económicos y políticos propios de las relaciones de poder internacionales características de este periodo. Este artículo toma como caso de estudio la ciudad de Bogotá, para explicar cómo las relaciones desequilibradas de poder entre países del primero y tercer mundo, y luego entre países desarrollados y en vías de desarrollo, condujeron a la creación de sistemas técnico científicos y redes de monitoreo atmosférico. Estas resultaron al principio más problemáticas que útiles, pero con el paso del tiempo se tornaron muy importantes para la vigilancia sanitaria y ambiental del territorio. Abstract Networks for air quality monitoring in cities have been positioned as useful technology to monitor and intervene on the danger posed by air pollution. The need to carry out global atmospheric monitoring has been based on the importance of this environmental problem to public health, especially after the second post war period. Monitoring technology appeared in Latin America in the 1960s, at a time when air pollution was not a major problem in the region. Even so, atmospheric surveillance was initiated, mediated by economic and political interests in the international power relations characteristic of this period. This article takes as a case study the city of Bogota, to explain how the unbalanced power relations between first and third world countries, and then between developed and developing countries, led to the creation of scientific technical systems and networks of atmospheric monitoring. These were at first more problematic than useful, but with the passage of time they became very important for the sanitary and environmental surveillance of the territory.

scholarly journals Conjuguer l’histoire

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Morel
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Trends Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
International Power

Futurology often looks like a new undertaking, the object of which would be to give people "the fantastic and marvellous" that every one needs: make one dream of tomorrow. But if the future is an alibi, it must also be a tool for mobilization. Prospective gives then to itself a less emphatic purpose: it is a new way of reading past and present (that is to say to understand history) as to define the prospects which make the future. The future is not determined in a mecanic way. It is the resultant and the expression of different projects (projects of economical groups and classes), which meet, clash inside a complex economic and social formation. In another way, to read history goes with the idea the future is to be made, which only results of classes, struggle, social and international power-relations. The method must unite on one side a way of production trends analysis (abstract time), and a social formation evolution (concrete time). It is a way of thinking which obviously can use traditional technics.

Structuralism

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Newly Industrialized Countries ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
International Power

Structuralist transformation approaches were first developed by neo-Marxist critics dissatisfied with classic modernization theory. Rather than assuming a universal path to democracy that all countries eventually follow, structuralist explanations view democratization as merely one possible outcome of more fundamental changes in a society’s class and power relations. After discussing Barrington Moore’s early attempt to identify the social origins of dictatorship and democracy, this chapter turns to the role of the state and international power relations. World-system and dependency theory link the emergence of bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes in newly industrialized countries to their late integration into the capitalist world economy. Dependent development changes the nature of class relations and the outlook of the bourgeoisie thereby hampering democracy. Yet the chapter continues to show that the final push for democratic inclusion has typically been by the working class. Finally, a synthesis of different structuralist arguments and Vanhanen’s Index of Power Resources are presented.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

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