Locating Global Order
Locating Global Order

Author: Bruno Charbonneau

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2010-10-19

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0774859660

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Since 9/11, policy-makers and observers have questioned whether America should don the mantle of empire for the sake of world peace, or whether peace will come through world government. Locating Global Order questions the very idea that the political order is hierarchical, with state and international institutions at the top and groups and individuals at the bottom. Chapters examining various case studies on Canada's role in the construction and maintenance of order domestically and internationally reveal that the global order post-9/11 is not exclusively American � allied powers are a key component of its hegemony.

Contesting Global Order
Contesting Global Order

Author: James H. Mittelman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-25

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1136865063

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Contesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a world level over the last half century. Including a framing introduction written for the volume, this book presents James H. Mittelman’s most influential essays. It offers cross-regional analysis, drawing on his fieldwork in nine countries in Africa and Asia. This research explores mechanisms by which prevailing knowledge about global order is implicated in its deep tensions: chiefly, the impetus for development and global governance embodies aspirations for attaining wellbeing and upholding human dignity; yet market- and state-driven globalization embraces basic ideas inscribed in power, thus increasing vulnerability and making the world more insecure. Rather than exalt one element in this quandary over another, Mittelman shows how different aspects of the relationship collide. Examining cases of specific localities, international organizations, and social movements, this grounded study unveils evolving structures that shape our times. It projects scenarios for future global order and how to make it work for the have-nots. Mittelman consistently forges a critical perspective throughout this collection. His reflections cut against conventions in international studies and, more generally, global order. This volume will be of great interest to all students and practitioners of development, global governance, and globalization.

Locating BRICS in the Global Order
Locating BRICS in the Global Order

Author: Rajan Kumar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-10-14

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1000738760

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BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world. This book highlights the significance of BRICS in a wider global context and foregrounds the long-pending demand for the reform of global governance institutions. The volume: • Traces how the organisation came into being and looks at the distinct norms and principles espoused by it • Discusses the glaring limitations of the existing institutions of global governance • Explores the economic growth and the rising political influence of BRICS states • Analyses the internal threats to the survival of the organisation and assesses its prospects in the foreseeable future. A significant intervention in situating BRICS as one of the major players in global governance, the book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international political economy, international business and finance, international relations, politics, and Global South Studies.

Constructing Global Order
Constructing Global Order

Author: Amitav Acharya

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 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.

Political Economy and the Changing Global Order
Political Economy and the Changing Global Order

Author: Richard Stubbs

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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Covering the basics necessary for a course in international political economy (IPE), this text comes from a non-American, critical perspective and the contributors are drawn from prominent scholars of IPE around the world.

The BRICS and the Future of Global Order
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order

Author: Oliver Stuenkel

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-02-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1498567282

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The transformation of the BRIC acronym from an investment term into a household name of international politics and into a semi-institutionalized political outfit (called BRICS, with a capital ‘S’), is one of the defining developments in international politics in the past decades. While the concept is now commonly used in the general public debate and international media, there has not yet been a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the history of the BRICS term. The BRICS and the Future of Global Order, Second Edition offers a definitive reference history of the BRICS as a term and as an institution—a chronological narrative and analytical account of the BRICS concept from its inception in 2001 to the political grouping it is today. In addition, it analyzes what the rise of powers like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa means for the future of global order. Will the BRICS countries seek to establish a parallel system with its own distinctive set of rules, institutions, and currencies of power, rejecting key tenets of liberal internationalism, are will they seek to embrace the rules and norms that define today’s Western-led order?

Locating Global Advantage
Locating Global Advantage

Author: Martin Kenney

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780804747585

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This volume explores how industries organize their global operations, through case studies of seven manufacturing industries. The chapters provide a nuanced understanding of the complex matrix of factor costs, access to inimitable capabilities, and time-based pressures that influence where firms decide to locate particular segments of the value chain.

Building a New Global Order
Building a New Global Order

Author: David Brian Dewitt

Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13:

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The end of the Cold War era has not brought greater security to the world community. Although the likelihood of a global strategic nuclear war has been reduced significantly, we have already witnessed the impact of other challenges to international peace. As the Gulf War of 1991 demonstrated, regional conflicts can expand, adopting the methods and means of the earlier superpower confrontation. Recent events in the Horn of Africa, the Balkans, and Southeast Asia have revealed the continuing power of historic ethnic, religious, and national rivalries and the seeming inability of the international community to find effective solutions. At the same time, modern weapons and communications technologies, demographic changes and environmental degradation, vast disparities in wealth, and the globalization of both economic activity and Western culture pose enormous challenges. Are the international institutions with which we have lived since the end of the Second World War equipped to handle these problems? Written by international authorities in a wide range of disciplines, the essays in this text examine what is known, what must be determined, and what might be done with respect to these profound and urgent issues.

China's Quest for Global Order
China's Quest for Global Order

Author: Rosita Dellios

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780739168332

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The "rise of China" has become a ubiquitous and often menacing term in global politics. China's Quest for Global Order: From Peaceful Rise to Harmonious World, by Rosita Dellios, PhD, and R. James Ferguson, PhD, examines how China's leadership has responded to this depiction and the strategic approaches that have been developed to ameliorate threat perceptions. Borrowing from its own Confucian heritage to promote a harmonious world policy, China's contribution to world order is likely to be more robust than the "responsible stakeholder" epithet upon which the West has pinned its collective hopes. The book interprets China's quest for global order from Chinese perspectives, old and new, and provides the relevant philosophical and historical background to engage the reader in the ensuing debates.