The international politics of the Middle East fills a major gap in the field of middle eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It will be of ...immense benefit to students of middle eastern politics, international relations and comparative politics. The book begins with an overview of the rules and features of the middle east regional system - the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Israrel and Arab states od Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. It goes on to analyse foreign policy-making in key states, illustrating how systematic determinants contrain this policy-making, and how these contraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on particular domsetic features of the individual states. Finally, the book goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The book assesses the impact of international pentrartion in the region, including the hsitorica reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of the external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union and explains the process by which the region has besome incorporated into the global capitalist market.
From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West
is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright
eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional
...readings of western history and literature, and redraws the
boundaries of the American West with absorbing essays ranging
widely on topics from tourism to immigration, from environmental
battles to interethnic relations, and from law to film. Taken
together, the essays reassess the contributions of a diverse and
multicultural America to the West, as they link western issues to
global frontiers. Featuring the latest work by some of the best new
writers both inside and outside academia, the original essays in
Over the Edge confront the traditional field of western
American studies with a series of radical, speculative, and
sometimes outrageous challenges. The collection reads the West
through Ben-Hur and the films of Mae West; revises the
western American literary canon to include the works of African
American and Mexican American writers; examines the implications of
miscegenation law and American Indian blood quantum requirements;
and brings attention to the historical participation of Mexican and
Japanese American women, Native American slaves, and Alaskan
cannery workers in community life.
El propósito del siguiente trabajo es reflexionar respecto del alcance y sentido de las últimas dos décadas transcurridas en la integración regional latinoamericana a nivel intergubernamental. ...Además, se abordan dos esquemas propios del regionalismo posliberal, como son ALBA y Unasur. Dos esquemas que aunque responden a formas diferentes de entender la región, una desde Venezuela, la otra desde Brasil, hasta el momento, no ofrecen grandes resultados, lo cual dista de consolidar, en sentido estricto, un escenario regional poshegemónico. Si a ello se unen factores inalterados, propios de la región, como la polaridad ideológica o el nacionalismo westfaliano, y factores coyunturales como la crisis política y económica actual de Brasil o Venezuela, o la emergencia de iniciativas de nuevo regionalismo como la Alianza del Pacífico, es posible entender el momento de incertidumbre que ha acompañado al regionalismo latinoamericano en las últimas dos décadas.
This Element addresses questions of division of labor and concentration of authority among intergovernmental organizations by examining multilevel governance in the Global South. It focuses on the ...policy domains of peace and security and human rights in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its central finding is that the extent of governance regionalization varies across regions and issue areas. In the domain of peace and security, governance is most regionalized in Africa. In the domain of human rights protection, governance is most regionalized in the LAC region. Given the phenomenon of regional specialization, the Element makes the case for the greater explanatory power of regional drivers of regional institutional development. This Element is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
De-coding New Regionalism Scott, James W
2009, 20160513, 2009-01-01, 2016-05-13, 2016-05-18, 20090101
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Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through ...this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its contested nature and contradictions. It questions whether these regions are merely a strategy of neo-liberal adjustment to changing political and economic conditions, or whether they are indicative of true reform, greater citizen participation and empowerment. It assesses whether these regions are really representing something new or whether they are a reconfiguration of traditional power relationships. It provides a timely critical analysis of 'region-building' and the extent to which national processes of decentralization and sub-national processes of regionalism can enhance the effectiveness and responsiveness of governance.
The concept «power» has a significant status in the system of global regionalism. All concepts of political research originated in different branches of knowledge. Despite the great attention of ...scientists, the specific definition of this concept and the various approaches of the academic community cause the complexity and inconsistency to study the concept «power» in political science. Geopolitical space in this century is changing and the challenge of the phenomenon is to make an attractive country image. The national idea and mission of it can be concentrated and used by soft power mechanism in practice. «Soft power» has a goal to create motivation for action and make a decision by an object that has a «soft» effect. Therefore, to study indirect impact on the countries’ politics becomes the most burning. This work analyses the methodological genesis of the concept «Soft Power», gives the features of some theories considering the concept «power», including: classical, political, offensive realism, liberalism, democratic peace, the theory of international organizations, etc.
Global International Relations (IR) research promotes more spaces for a broader spectrum of histories, insights, and theoretical perspectives beyond the conventional dominant Western ones in the IR ...discipline. The primary goal of this paper is to highlight that the study of Regionalism has a significant role in supporting the initiative of 'globalizing IR' by representing a sub-discipline that is open to new ideas, theories and methods, especially those emanating from non-Western contexts. As such, Regionalism is one of the sub-disciplines of IR and International Political Economy (IPE) with a tremendous potential to showcase global-IR trends. This article utilizes a bibliometric analysis as a proxy for mapping out the diverse and complex intellectual structure of Regionalism as a sub-discipline of IR. Our findings indicate that the remarkable rise in the total number of contributions from non-Western scholars to the Regionalism literature in the last decade suggests that unlike the theory generating mainstream studies Regionalism studies have become dominated by non-European/non-Western contexts.
ASEAN countries are considered significant contributors to global pollution, particularly concerning marine plastic pollution (MPP), which has emerged as a critical concern in the region. To address ...this issue, ASEAN has established three specific instruments: the Bangkok Declaration on Combating Marine Debris in 2019, the ASEAN Framework of Action on Marine Debris 2019, and the ASEAN Regional Action Plan for Combating Marine Debris in the ASEAN Member States 2021-2025. However, being soft laws, these instruments lack legally binding force, allowing states to choose not to implement them effectively and promptly, leading to low compliance rates. The root cause of this compliance challenge lies in the ASEAN Way’s foundational principle, which promotes non-intervention, resulting in non-legally binding instruments. This raises genuine concerns about the potential inefficacy of implementing ASEAN instruments. Nonetheless, the issue of marine plastic pollution is considered a contemporary environmental catastrophe in the region, demanding Member States to prioritize compliance. Hence, this study delves into two key issues: (1) the ASEAN Way and compliance and (2) regional mechanisms to bolster Member States’ adherence in combating marine plastic pollution.
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