Constructing Global Order

Constructing Global Order
Title Constructing Global Order PDF eBook
Author Amitav Acharya
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 231
Release 2018-03-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107170710

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Examines how ideas of sovereignty and security from the non-Western world contribute to order and change in world politics.

The Making of Global International Relations

The Making of Global International Relations
Title The Making of Global International Relations PDF eBook
Author Amitav Acharya
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 397
Release 2019-02-14
Genre History
ISBN 1108480179

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Presents a challenge to international relations scholars to think globally, understanding the field's development in the Global South alongside the traditionally dominant Western approach.

Making Human

Making Human
Title Making Human PDF eBook
Author Matthew S. Weinert
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 281
Release 2015-02-20
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0472052497

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An International Relations scholar examines the processes by which formerly denigrated peoples become recognized as human beings worthy of rights and dignity

Whose Ideas Matter?

Whose Ideas Matter?
Title Whose Ideas Matter? PDF eBook
Author Amitav Acharya
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 201
Release 2011-07-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 080145946X

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Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus. There's no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries to explain the design and effectiveness of regional institutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their response to the global norms of sovereignty and nonintervention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by contestations and compromises involving emerging global norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local actors. Acharya terms this perspective "constitutive localization" and argues that international politics is not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their way into non-Western societies while the latter remain passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism that constitutes an important contribution to the global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional institutions.

The End of American World Order

The End of American World Order
Title The End of American World Order PDF eBook
Author Amitav Acharya
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 115
Release 2014-04-25
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0745684653

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The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself is declining, the post-war liberal world order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American hegemony? A regionalized system of global cooperation, including major and emerging powers? In this timely and provocative book, Amitav Acharya offers an incisive answer to this fundamental question. While the US will remain a major force in world affairs, he argues that it has lost the ability to shape world order after its own interests and image. As a result, the US will be one of a number of anchors including emerging powers, regional forces, and a concert of the old and new powers shaping a new world order. Rejecting labels such as multipolar, apolar, or G-Zero, Acharya likens the emerging system to a multiplex theatre, offering a choice of plots (ideas), directors (power), and action (leadership) under one roof. Finally, he reflects on the policies that the US, emerging powers and regional actors must pursue to promote stability in this decentred but interdependent, multiplex world. Written by a leading scholar of the international relations of the non-Western world, and rising above partisan punditry, this book represents a major contribution to debates over the post-American era.

State Building

State Building
Title State Building PDF eBook
Author Francis Fukuyama
Publisher Profile Books
Pages 154
Release 2017-06-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1847653774

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Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.

The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order

The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order
Title The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order PDF eBook
Author Linklater, Andrew
Publisher Bristol University Press
Pages 340
Release 2020-11-18
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1529213878

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The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized – Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.