Zala / Unknown National perspectives on a multipolar order

Interrogating the global power transition
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5938-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

This book explores how the concept of a multipolar order is being used for different purposes in different national contexts. It examines the ways that debates about power and order in the world are shaping the policies of rising and established powers alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Zala, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 The utility and limits of polarity analysis – Benjamin Zala

Part I: Rising and re-emerging powers
2 ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’: China and the concept of multipolarity in the post-Cold War era – Nicholas Khoo and Zhang Qingmin
3 India: Seeking multipolarity, favouring multilateralism, pursuing multialignment – Ian Hall
4 Brazil: Pursuing a multipolar mirage? – Luis L. Schenoni
5 Multipolarity in Russia: A philosophical and practical understanding – Elena Chebankova

Part II: The unipole and its allies
6 Does the United States face a multipolar future? Washington’s response through the lens of technology – James S. Johnson
7 Japan and the dangers of multipolarisation – H.D.P. Envall
8 The uses and abuses of the polarity discourse in UK foreign and defence politics – David Blagden

Conclusion
9 Debating the distribution of power and status in the early twenty-first century – Benjamin Zala

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Zala is Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University