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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonizing Central Asian International
Book SynopsisThis book unpacks the main narratives used in international relations to depict and explain existing inter-state relations in Central Asia, with a focus on the construction of fairer international relations along the Silk Road.The book points to the need to decolonize international relations in the Central Asian region to present a fair representation of the regional states in international affairs. In doing so, the book exposes the concepts and stereotypes that have been imposed on the Central Asian region by dominant assumptions in contemporary international relations. Offering empirical grounding for alternative views, the author suggests that Western international relations make the same mistakes in the Central Asian region that the Russian Marxists made when they attributed a narrative of modernity along the lines of the progress made in Germany and Russia. In such a structure, both Russian Marxist attempts and liberalist Western ideas disregard the fact that the region Table of Contents1. Towards Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations 2. Critical Assessment of Contemporary Approaches to Central Asia 3. Manipulating Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Contrasting Political Narratives and Public Recollections in Central Asia 4. Emerging Japan-EU strategic partnership and its implications for Central Asia 5. De-securitizing the "Silk Road": Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in the Post-Karimov Era 6. Connectivity, Energy and Decolonization: Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea and Japan 7. Decolonizing the Afghanistan-Central Asian relations Concluding remarks: Seven points for decolonizing agenda setting in Central Asia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The EU Security Continuum
Book SynopsisThis book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor.The EU claims that internal and external security are inseparable' and requires a more integrated approach. This book critically assesses this claim in relation to the threats facing the EU, its responses to them, and the practical and normative implications for EU security governance and actorness. It sets out a novel conceptual framework the EU security continuum - to examine the ways and extent to which internal and external security are blurring along three axes: geographic, bureaucratic, and functional. This is done through an analysis of four key security issues, regional conflict, terrorism, organised crime, and cybersecurity. The book demonstrates that, to varying degrees, these security threats and/or responses do transcend boundaries. However, institutional turf wars and capability silos hamper tTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Conceptualising EU security: toward a security continuum 2. Framing EU security: the internal-external continuum 3. Conflict and crises: external stability for internal security 4. Terrorism and counterterrorism: from internal to international 5. Tackling organised crime: from Sarajevo to the Sahel 6. Cybersecurity: networks, crime, defence, and diplomacy 7. Governing the security continuum: institutions, accountability, and secrecy 8. The security continuum and the EU as a security actor Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd IndoPacific Strategies
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the Indo-Pacific region's growing prominence as the world's major powers gravitate toward this space to expand their influence. With dynamic shifts taking place in the globe's most strategically volatile region, Indo-Pacific Strategies aims at clarifying the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, expounded both as a strategic concept and nascent region, thus contributing to the burgeoning policy and academic debate. The book offers indispensable insights and appropriate remedies to maintain the rules-based international order as threatened by China's increasingly assertive and bellicose posturing. It offers up-to-date analyses of Covid-19-related geopolitical trends, the strategies of various Indo-Pacific states against the backdrop of great power competition, the increasingly confrontational stance of Indo-Pacific states against China and the 2020 US election results. This unique book presents deep insights into the roles of Eurasia, small islaTrade ReviewAs China forcefully attempts world dominance, it disrupts the rules-based international order. Its refusal to heed the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s award voiding its nine-dash line claim and acknowledging the Philippines exclusive sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea, is only one example. In confronting challenges to maintaining a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific order, Indo-Pacific Strategies enlightens freedom-loving people through its analyses. The authors and editors deserve commendation.- Justice Conchita Carpio Morales (Ret.), Supreme Court Justice (former) and Ombudsman (former), Republic of the PhilippinesFrom major powers to the too-often ignored small island states, the topics covered in this collection reflect the latest scholarship and thinking on the vital geopolitical environment of the Indo-Pacific. Of particular interest are perspectives on how Europe, the Middle East and Africa are interacting with the region. It will be hard for policymakers and strategists to find a more up-to-date, theoretically sophisticated and useful volume than Indo-Pacific Strategies.- Michael R. Auslin, Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of Asia’s New GeopoliticsThe age of the Indo-Pacific is here. Indo-Pacific Strategies will be an essential and comprehensive resource for scholars and policymakers as they grapple with the complexities of this new era in geopolitics. A real strength of this volume is the way it brings together an array of experts whose perspectives reflect the true multipolarity of the Indo-Pacific, a region too large and diverse for hegemony. And the welcome focus on formulating national strategies means this is not purely an academic exercise.- Professor Rory Medcalf, Australian National University, author of Indo-Pacific EmpireAs the idea of the Indo-Pacific overcomes the initial skepticism that greeted it and gains political traction, Cannon and Hakata offer a valuable assessment of the prospects for this new strategic geography. In combining the perspectives from key actors across this broad theater with deep theoretical and practical insights, Indo-Pacific Strategies becomes a good pivot to scholars interested in the geopolitical churn that is unfolding in the Eastern Hemisphere.- Professor C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsPart I Contextualizing the Indo-Pacific 1. The Indo-Pacific as an emerging geography of strategies 2. The Indo-Pacific’s evolving strategic landscape: Geopolitics as a framework for grand strategy? Part II Indo-Pacific lynchpins 3. Building Australia’s unified regional strategy through the Indo-Pacific concept 4. India’s Indo-Pacific prism: Finding strategic autonomy in the face of Chinese adventurism 5. Japan and the Indo-Pacific: The formation of geostrategy 6. Indo-Pacific positioning of the United States: Evaluating dis/continuities Part III East Asia and the Indo-Pacific 7. China’s foreign policy transformation and its implications for the Indo-Pacific 8. ASEAN in search of a common strategy in the Indo-Pacific, Renato Cruz de Castro Part IV Frontlines of the Indo-Pacific 9. Small island states’ security in the Indo-Pacific 10. Europe’s Indo-Pacific puzzle: In search of an independent foreign policy 11. Arab Gulf States in the Indo-Pacific: The limits of ambiguous hedging strategies 12. Influence and power in the Western Indo-Pacific: Lessons from Eastern Africa
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Taylor & Francis Time Climate Change Global Racial Capitalism and
Book SynopsisThis book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary, ecology, and otherwise. It presents debates that interrogate and elucidate the anxieties of the known and the unknown of this world and the planetary beyond, sifting through temporal accounts of the Anthropocene, human beings, and climate change.The chapters in this edited volume spur conversations with different thought systems and their underlying assumptions about the composition of structures of time and contingent temporalities. The authors engage rising temperatures in the oceans and air, the consequences, intended and unintended, of investments in various forms of development, and the potential catastrophe unfolding in real time. Recent temporal strategies such as mitigation and adaptation to the climate crisis are challenged as they further compound and commodify the inquiry, the understanding and responses to environmental degradationsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence PART I: The question of radical existence 1. Humility in the Anthropocene 2. Submerged perspectives: the arts of land and water defense 3. Beyond the secular Anthropocene: Locke’s self-owning body, protestant translations of indigenous world-making, and the settler-colonial plantation economy 4. On the question of time, racial capitalism, and the planetary 5. Indigenous resistance, planetary dystopia, and the politics of environmental justice PART II: Profound challenges of climate change and climate science 6. Beyond the premise of conquest: Indigenous and Black earth-worlds in the Anthropocene debates 7. Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’ 8. A puzzle: the environment/development constellation in Madagascar 9. Time to change? Technologies of futuring and transformative change in Nepal’s climate change policy 10. Financialization and suburbanization: the predatory hegemony of suburban-financial nexus in Istanbul 11. Producing nationalized futures of climate change and science in India 12. Connecting human and planetary health: interview with Christiana Figueres PART III: Radical existence and ecological imaginaries 13. Welcome to the Anthropocene: Gregory Bateson, disaster porn, Swamp Thing, and ‘The Green’ 14. ‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope 15. Poems 16. Poems 17. Tipping Point: Kay S. Lawrence’s exhibition on climate emergency 18. ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’: the Anthropecene and the cyclical time of human suffering 19. Conversations on education, time and the planetary
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Taylor & Francis The Western Balkans in the World
Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed understanding of how different types of engagements impact upon the reform and EU integration of the Western Balkan region. It examines the influence of Russia, China, Turkey and the UAE in the region and analyses the range of existing links.Contributors offer an academic and multifaceted perspective of the role of external and non-Western actors in the region that goes beyond, on the one hand, the tendency of some Western decision makers to perceive all engagement by third powers as a sinister threat and, on the other, the view of regional governments of all external involvement as a boon coming at a time of Western neglect and reduced foreign investments. By looking at the importance of Russia, Turkey, China and the UAE in the Western Balkans, the book sheds light on one key arena of global competition, offers new insights on the strengths and weaknesses of EuroâAtlantic integration and advances our knowledge of foreign policy and its economic,Trade Review"Academics and policy makers are increasingly interested in how Russia, China and Turkey are seeking to shape the Western Balkans. However, there has been little by way of systematic or comparative analysis of their involvement and how they each pose a challenge to the wider processes of Euro-Atlantic integration. This volume is a very timely contribution to our understanding of how these key international actors are seeking to exert influence in this important, but still unstable, region." - James Ker-Lindsay, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK"The Western Balkan countries have once again become a playground for wider global politics. The authors demonstrate how non-Western actors increasingly interact with, and influence the politics (internal and external) of, the Western Balkan states. This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the geopolitical relevance of the Western Balkans, and the wider challenges to the Euro-Atlantic integration of the region." - Soeren Keil, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK"The Western Balkans in the World is a deeply thought-out, well researched and comprehensive exploration of the place of the region within the broader context of international relations. Instead of looking at each state in isolation, this volume analyzes the Western Balkans through a network of linkages, shared interests and soft power that are much broader than the region itself. The book is an extremely timely contribution to the scholarship on Western Balkans and foreign policy." - Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Influence of External Actors in the Western Balkans Part I Regional Dynamics Chapter 1 Security co-operation in the Western Balkans: Cracks and erosion of Euro-Atlantic integration? Chapter 2 The economic development of the Western Balkans: The importance of non-EU actors Part II Western Balkan Case Studies Chapter 3 Serbia: Looking East, going West? Chapter 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Abandoned by the West, embraced by the East?Chapter 5 Kosovo: Between Western and Non-Western States Chapter 6 North Macedonia: A fertile ground for external influences Chapter 7 Montenegro: Always at a Crossroads Chapter 8 Albania: New Geopolitics and shifting linkages Part III Non-Western Countries Chapter 9 Russia: Playing a Weak Hand Well Chapter 10 China: A New Geoeconomic Approach to the Balkans Chapter 11 Turkey: Forced marriage or marriage of convenience with the Western Balkans? Chapter 12 UAE: Sultanism meets illiberal democracy. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations is an essential and comprehensive reference for the regulation of transatlantic relations across a range of subjects, bringing together contributions from scholars, policy makers, lawyers and political scientists. Future oriented in a range of fields, it probes the key technical, procedural and policy issues for the US of dealing with, negotiating, engaging and law-making with the EU, taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective including international relations, politics, political economic and law, EU external relations law and international law and assesses the external consequences of transatlantic relations in a systematic and comprehensive fashion.The transatlantic relationship constitutes one of the most established and far-reaching democratic alliances globally, and which has propelled multilateralism, trade regulation and the EU-US relationship in global challenges. The different contributions will propose soluTrade ReviewTransatlantic relations are often reduced to security matters. This book responds to the need for more comprehensive analyses of various policy sectors and arenas in which the EU and the US interact. These are embedded in larger theoretical debates, thus skillfully connecting theory and practice in this valuable handbook.Markus Thiel, Florida International University, USAAn intellectual gold mine for scholars and practitioners alike, this book unlocks the full complexity of Transatlantic relations. Breaking down policy silos, it goes beyond the diplomatic tip of the Transatlantic iceberg to shed light on the submerged processes, actors and institutions that structure this cooperative, competitive and conflictual relationship. Jean-Baptiste Velut, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.With this seminal work Elaine Fahey assembled an impressive selection of authoritative voices on Transatlantic relations from both sides of the pond who delivered rigorous, original, and thought-provoking contributions providing a consistent narrative on a crucial relationship that has been and will remain difficult before, during, and after President Trump. Professor Martin Trybus, University of Birmingham, UKIn an increasingly bipolar world, the US-EU relationship should be one of strength and coherence. Yet, as the Handbook vividly shows, this relationship remains unstable and multifaceted. New crises and actions by a plurality of transatlantic actors are constantly re-shaping the balance of powers in diplomacy, policy, and law across the Atlantic.Fernanda G. Nicola, Washington College of Law, American University, USATable of ContentsIntroductionElaine FaheySECTION I: EU and US Intra-Organisations Relations1 Connecting the US Congress and the European Parliament: The Work and Role of the EP Liaison O□ffice in Washington DCJoseph Dunne2 EU-US Relations in a Changing WorldDavid O’Sullivan3 Negotiating with the European Union – A U.S. PerspectiveKenneth Propp4 Transatlantic Parliamentary Cooperation at FiftyDavor Jancic5 The Rise of Informal International Organizations Charles B. Roger6 The Revival of Transatlantic Partnership? EU-US Coordination in Sanctions Policy Peter Van Elsuwege and Viktor Szép7 The EU and US Global Human Rights Sanction Regimes: Useful Complementary Instruments to Advance Protection of Universal Values? A Legal AppraisalSara Poli8 NATO and Transatlantic Security RelationsGabriella Bolstad and Karsten FriisSECTION II: Trade, Investment and Cooperation in Transatlantic Relations9 Transatlantic Economic and Legal Disintegration? Between Anglo-Saxon Neo-Liberal Nationalism, Authoritarian State-Capitalism and Europe’s Ordo-Liberal Multilevel Constitutionalism Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann10 Reverberations of the CJEU Achmea B.V. Decision in the Transatlantic Space Jenya Grigorova11 Executive Accountability in Unilateral Trade Policy: A Transatlantic PerspectiveThomas Verellen12 Transatlantic Energy Relations: A Brief History and a Tentative Outlook Simon Dekeyrel13 Transatlantic Trade Relations: Domestic Obstacles and Strategic OpportunitiesL. Johan Eliasson14 Taking Back Control: The Political Economy of Investment Screening in the US and EU Michelle EganSECTION III: Norm Promotion Practices of the EU and US in the Digital Age15 The Future of the EU-US Privacy Shield Elaine Fahey and Fabien Terpan16 The EU and US Transatlantic Agendas on TaxationMaria Kendrick17 The “Beneficial Divergence” in the Transatlantic Approach to Competition Law Enforcement Towards Platform and Ecosystem CompetitionGiulio Kowalski18 Who Occupies the Transatlantic Data Privacy Space? Assessing the Evolving Dynamics, Underlying Reasons and the Way Forward Maria TzanouSECTION IV: The Political and Economic Character of Transatlantic Relations 19 The Transatlantic Regulatory Relationship: Limited Conflict, Less Competition and a New Approach to Cooperation Alasdair R. Young20 Bilateral, Trilateral or - Quadrilateral? The UK-US Trade Relations in a Global Context Peter Holmes and Minako Morita-Jaeger21 Anglo-American Power in the Wake of Brexit and America First: A Crisis at the Heart of the Liberal International Order Inderjeet Parmar and Mark Ledwidge22 The Measurement, Structure and Dynamics of the Transatlantic Current Account Martin T. Braml and Gabriel J. Felbermayr23 Asymmetry and Civil Society Backlash: Changing European Calculations in Trans-Atlantic Investment Relations from CETA to TTIP and Beyond Robert G. Finbow24 Transatlantic Relations in a Changing World Marianne Riddervold, Akasemi Newsome, and Albert Didriksen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Differentiation and Dominance in Europes
Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of a more differentiated European Union, this book discusses the relationship between differentiation and domination in the EU in relation to how it has been transformed through the financial and refugee crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in general, a more volatile and less rule-bound global context.In doing so, it assesses to what extent these adaptations represent significant change, generating new problems and challenges, or on the other hand, providing an opportunity for new solutions or even signalling a new approach to governance that can mitigate problems associated with domination. Differentiation is discussed not only from a legal perspective, but with special attention to structural and institutional arrangements, which includes patterns of path dependence and built-in biases.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of public sector crisis management, international organisations, and EU
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Taylor & Francis The New Economic Diplomacy
Book SynopsisThe New Economic Diplomacy, 5th edition, explores how states conduct their external economic relations, make domestic decisions, negotiate internationally, and how these processes interact. It provides the reader with an understanding of - and the means with which to analyse - the processes of decision making and negotiation in international economic relations and clarifies our understanding of âeconomic diplomacyâ and how it can be understood as consisting of âcommercial diplomacy,â ânegotiating international cooperation, âeconomic statecraftâ and âeconomic sanctions.âTo capture the emergence of new trends and the intensification of old ones, this new edition focuses on: Responses to geopolitics in economic diplomacy The intensification of domestic pressures on decision making in international economic relations The weakening of multilateralism and emergence of a multi-polar system The continued importance of policy processes i
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Navigating the Complexity Across the
Book SynopsisPromoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity''s challenges of the twenty-first century. There is enough evidence that peace, sustainability, and climate security are entangled with multiple complex interactions and cannot be dealt with in isolation and independently from the environment and the numerous systems with which they interact. Yet, the intersection of peace, sustainability, and climate security or their opposites (i.e., conflict, unsustainability, and climate vulnerability) is rarely articulated with a systemic mindset. A multi-solving nexus approach is more appropriate to capture the complexity and uncertainty of how the three sectors of peace, sustainability, and climate security play a role in community development, the nature of their causal chains, and the feedback on how community development affects the Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Peace–Sustainability–Climate Nexus 3. Changing the Narrative 4. Systems Thinking 5. Defining the PSC Nexus Landscape 6. Soft Systems Modeling Tools 7. Hard Systems Modeling Tools 8. Systems Archetypes 9. System-Based Methodology 10. Illustrative Examples–Part 1 11. Illustrative Examples–Part 2 12. Case Studies 13. Systemic Interventions 14. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Polish Crisis and Relations with Eastern
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a collection of diplomatic documents describing Britain's relations with Eastern Europe from 1979 to 1982, with special focus on the crisis in Poland.After coming to power in 1979, the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher reaffirmed a policy of differentiation' between the Soviet Union and the rest of Eastern Europe, and between individual countries; concurrently it encouraged states to exercise a limited amount of independence. This policy was soon put to the test when in 1980 Solidarnosc, the Solidarity trade union led by Lech Walesa, challenged the power of the Party state in Poland. Political demands, social unrest and economic crisis culminated in the imposition of martial law in December 1981, finally suspended in December 1982. The volume maps the UK response, in consultation with Western partners, to the unfolding crisis in Poland, the threat of Soviet intervention and the impact on other Communist states iTable of ContentsPrefaceI: ‘Differentiation’ and the emergence of Solidarity: 18 September 1979 — 10 December 1981II: The imposition of martial law in Poland: 13 December 1981 — 23 December 1982
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Positivist and PoliticalEconomic Theories of
Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to positivist-pluralist theories of international relations (IR) which emerged during the early-and mid-1950s along with Marxist political economic and non-Marxist economic theories of IR.Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations is an in-depth critical study of texts and literature which highlight IR's methodological pluralism even after it gained maturity. It examines how pluralist political status quo and radical economic criticism coexist in discrete areas of the discipline. Insights are provided into key positivist liberal-pluralist theories, namely decision-making approaches, and theories of integration, regionalism, interdependence, and regime. It discusses the four political economic and critical theories of Marxism, dependency, world systems, and international political economy.The book, as an advanced supplementary reader, will be of great interest to researchers and students of internatiTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Positivist Liberal-Pluralist Theories 1. Introduction 2. Decision-making Theory: From Snyder to Allison and After 3. Integration Theory: The Four Schools and Beyond 4. Theories of Regionalism: Early, Old and New 5. Theories of Interdependence 6. Regime Theory Part II—Political-Economic and Radical Theories 7. Marxism and Its Variants in International Relations Theory 8. Dependency Theory 9. World Systems Theory 10. International Political Economy. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Withdrawal from Immanuel Kant and International
Book SynopsisThis book shows how the flawed orientation forming Immanuel Kant's philosophical project is the same from which the discipline of International Relations (IR) becomes possible and appears necessary.Tracing how core problems in Kant's thought are inescapably reproduced in IR, this book demonstrates that constructive critique of IR is impossible through mere challenge to its Kantian traditions. It argues that confrontation with the Kantian character of IR demands fundamental withdrawal from their shared aims. Investigating the global limits inherent to epistemological and ontological commitments of Kant's writings and IR, this interdisciplinary study interrogates the racism, sexism, coloniality, white male privilege, and anthropocentricism of both as sites from which such withdrawal may be initiated. Following queer and feminist examinations of how Kant and IR discipline a joint orientation through sex, gender, and sexuality, it indicates how withdrawal is possible. And, considTable of ContentsPart I — Introduction 1. Confronting International Relations with Immanuel Kant Part II — Horizons 2. Silence of the International: Pacts of Perpetual Peace over Kant and IR 3. Return to Kant as a Critique of International Relations: A Copernican Re–revolution for IR Theory Part III — Maneuvers and Ruptures 4. IR Within the Limits of Geo–Anthropology Alone: The Kantian Racisms of the International 5. Conflict of the Masculinities: Kantian Empowerments of the Rights of Some Men to Critique and Explain the World to Everyone Else 6. Critique of the Metaphysics of Cosmopolitan Hospitality in IR: Toward Perpetual Rights to Impose 7. Anthropocene: Aesthetic Idea for Human Purposiveness in International Environmental Politics with Horrifying Aim Part IV — Withdrawals 8. What is Dis–Orientation in Thinking? Sexual Rupture of the Kantian Horizons of IR 9. Possibilities in the Freedom of Choice as Conditioned by the Global Unlimited: A Withdrawal from Kant and IR Part V — Conclusion 10. The Global Unlimited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China in Indias Neighbourhood
Book SynopsisThis book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India's neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power politics.Through theoretical narratives and detailed case studies, it examines Chinese bilateral relationships in the Indian neighbourhood and looks at the extent and significance of Chinese influence through the lens of strategic, economic and infrastructural arrangements and Chinese interventions in South, Southeast, and Central Asia. The book takes into account regional voices and domestic political compulsions in understanding what they make of the Chinese narrative and examines how and whether the narrative has changed in recent years through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as an instrument of Chinese public diplomacy. The volume also discusses how domestic narratives and compulsions in the Indian neighbourhood remain significant and how these, in turn, would impact the trajectory of Chinese public diplomacy. Intertwined t
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Taylor & Francis The French War on Terror
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the French war on terror, covering the French contributions to the US-led âwar on terrorâ and the wars in the Sahel Region since 2013.This book argues that âterrorismâ and offensive counter-'terrorism' are not separate phenomena but, rather, need to be analyzed as two segments of one common violent relation. This leads the work to deconstruct the argument made by state officials that the French approaches to counter-'terrorism' have been more humane and more efficient than the Anglo-Saxons'. France has not avoided the mistakes previously committed by the US and Britain. The only originality of France's war on terror is in fact its anachronistic character. Indeed, France embraced this warlike approach to counter-'terrorism' in mid-2010, at a moment when the US and Britain had already recognized the shortcomings of this approach and started to abandon it.This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, French politics, and
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