Power Shifts
Title | Power Shifts PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Dearborn |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2021-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022679783X |
"The extraordinary nature of the Trump presidency has spawned a resurgence in the study of the presidency and a rising concern about the power of the office. In Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation, John Dearborn explores the development of the idea of the representative presidency, that the president alone is elected by a national constituency, and thus the only part of government who can represent the nation against the parochial concerns of members of Congress, and its relationship to the growth of presidential power in the 20th century. Dearborn asks why Congress conceded so much power to the Chief Executive, with the support of particularly conservative members of the Supreme Court. He discusses the debates between Congress and the Executive and the arguments offered by politicians, scholars, and members of the judiciary about the role of the president in the American state. He asks why so many bought into the idea of the representative, and hence, strong presidency despite unpopular wars, failed foreign policies, and parochial actions that favor only the president's supporters. This is a book about the power of ideas in the development of the American state"--
Power Shift
Title | Power Shift PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Newell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108832857 |
A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.
Shifts of Power
Title | Shifts of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Zhitian Luo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 900435056X |
In Shifts of Power: Modern Chinese Thought and Society, Luo Zhitian brings together nine essays to explore the causes and consequences of various shifts of power in modern Chinese society, including the shift from scholars to intellectuals, from the traditional state to the modern state, and from the people to society. Adopting a microhistorical approach, Luo situates these shifts at the intersection of social change and intellectual evolution in the midst of modern China’s culture wars with the West. Those culture wars produced new problems for China, but also provided some new intellectual resources as Chinese scholars and intellectuals grappled with the collisions and convergences of old and new in late Qing and early Republican China.
Turkey’s Foreign Policy Narratives
Title | Turkey’s Foreign Policy Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Toni Alaranta |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2022-01-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030926486 |
This book offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives in a period of global power shifts. By examining international and national historical processes, the author highlights narrative processes and traditions that describe Turkey and its position in world politics. He also analyzes how global power shifts, such as the rise of China, affect Turkey's increasingly active and confusing foreign policy and the narratives associated with it. The book covers topics such as Kemalist modernization, Islamic conservative views of the New World Order, Turkey's relations with non-Western countries such as Russia and China, and Turkish narratives of the Syrian war and the COVID-19-pandemic. It is intended for scholars of international relations and European and Middle Eastern politics, and appeals to anyone interested in Turkish history and politics.
Power Shifts and Global Governance
Title | Power Shifts and Global Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Ashwani Kumar |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1843318342 |
Power Shifts and Global Governance: Challenges from South and North' presents an eclectic theoretical framework for emerging architectures of global governance through examining country and regional case studies from the perspective of 'great power shifts' in the twenty-first century. The book analytically and empirically explores the role of global civil society, discusses the implications of the rise of India and China, analyses regional security issues in Latin America and the Middle East and develops proposals for possible summit and UN reforms.
Rising Titans, Falling Giants
Title | Rising Titans, Falling Giants PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2018-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501725076 |
As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors in response to declining states’ policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two. Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.
Power Shifts, Strategy and War
Title | Power Shifts, Strategy and War PDF eBook |
Author | Dong Sun Lee |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2007-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135978190 |
Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as among the most common causes of war. This book explains why such power shifts lead to war breaking out in some cases, but not in others. In contrast to existing approaches, this book argues that the military strategy of declining states is the key determinant of whether power shifts result in war or pass peacefully. More specifically, Dong Sun Lee argues that the probability of war is primarily a function of whether a declining state possesses a ‘manoeuvre strategy’ or an ‘attrition strategy’. The argument is developed through the investigation of fourteen power shifts among great powers over the past two centuries. Shifts in the balance of power and the attendant risks of war remain an enduring feature of international politics. This book argues that policymakers need to understand the factors influencing the risk of war as a result of these changes, in particular the contemporary shifts in power resulting from the rise of China and from the growth of nuclear proliferation.