Power shift: Asia, China and the decline of the West?

In 2011 the United Nations Security Council legitimized a no-fly zone over Libya under the normative rubric of the ‘responsibility to protect’. As the Libya intervention gained steam, another uprising broke out in Syria. In contrast to Libya, discord between Western actors and emerging powers underpinned standstill at the Council. What explains such radically different outcomes? The international responses to the crises in Libya and Syria may look like evidence of a tipping point in the international system which is undergoing a profound power shift. And yet the two crises unfolded almost in parallel. This article argues that while a systemic understanding of power cannot capture the dynamics underpinning the Libyan and Syrian crises, power is crucial in explaining their very different outcomes. While not revealing a tipping point in the international system from the ‘West’ to the ‘Rest’, a situated and multifaceted analysis of power reveals that both Western and brics countries played key roles in determining the overall international responses to both crises and in so doing are shaping the ongoing normative debate over the ‘Responsibility to Protect’.

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The West and the Global Power Shift

10.1057/978-1-137-57486-2 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Keyword(s):

The West ◽

Power Shift ◽

Global Power

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Power Shift and the Death of the West? Not Yet!

European Political Science ◽

10.1057/eps.2011.31 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 416-424 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Michael Cox

Keyword(s):

The West ◽

Power Shift

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Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 19021935. By Donald J. Pisani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 394. $49.95.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050703542322 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 906-908

Author(s):

MARK KANAZAWA

Keyword(s):

Water Policy ◽

University Of California ◽

American Government ◽

The West ◽

National Water

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Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010005264x ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 526-527 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

O. Mudroch ◽

J. R. Kramer

Keyword(s):

Water Supply ◽

Water Samples ◽

Drainage Basin ◽

Lake Superior ◽

Research Work ◽

List Type ◽

The West ◽

Asbestos Fibre ◽

Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

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The fight to save Uganda’s White Rhino

Africana Newsletter ◽

10.1017/s0568160x00000125 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 2 (01) ◽

pp. 6-12

Keyword(s):

The West ◽

West Nile ◽

White Rhino

In the West Nile District of Uganda lives a population of white rhino—those relies of a past age, cumbrous, gentle creatures despite their huge bulk—which estimates only 10 years ago, put at 500. But poachers live in the area, too, and official counts showed that white rhino were being reduced alarmingly. By 1959, they were believed to be diminished to 300.

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