... Bank ADB Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AIIB banking industrial policy Modi Narendra Trump Donald Africa Asia Africa Growth Corridor AAGC economics Free and Open Indo Pacific FOIP great power politics Obama Barack power Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership RCEP Suga Yoshihide...

... and external). The introduction also identifies three explanations for the Secretariat’s fragmentation in the early 1990s—bureaucratic, power-political, and conceptual—and argues that these pathologies still affect the UN organization today. Through a ‘micro-history’ of the Rwandan crisis as seen from New York...

...This concluding chapter addresses the book's implications, arguing that there is indisputable evidence that religious appeals can be an important part of power politics. However, conditions often combine in an unstable manner, producing the unexpected effects of religious legitimation discussed...

... power politics that today's orthodoxies in U.S. grand strategy make hard to imagine, let alone think about carefully. The chapter then concludes with commentary for policy practitioners seeking to make selective accommodation work. alliance competition China great power competition India reward...

... to act independently on behalf of the global interest, in a political environment characterized by competing national interests and power politics. It also considers whether the process that resulted in the appointment of António Gutteres in 2016—seen as the most transparent, meritocratic, and inclusive...

... commercial litigation as it relates to democracy in classical Athens, focusing on the speech Against Zenothemis, written by Demosthenes for his uncle Demon in support of a special plea he had lodged against a foreigner and merchant named Zenothemis. It then analyses the power politics...

... Christensen Thomas J Deng Xiaoping Japan Weiss Jessica Chen great power politics security studies international relations theory time horizons uncertainty intentions Almost a century and a half ago, in an 1870 essay titled “Wanted, a Statesman!,” the American preacher and author James Freeman Clarke...

... that of their eighteenth-century predecessors had been. The study demonstrates diplomacy as a branch of power politics increasingly defined in ‘modern’ term. Eden Morton Elliot Hugh Ewart Joseph Gray James Liston Robert Malmesbury James Harris Earl tourism Whitworth Charles Yorke Joseph Auckland William Eden...

..., it has made more important progress in constructing regionalism based on burgeoning financial and economic interactions among the countries in this region and in the Asia Pacific. The chapter also contends that these developments do not necessarily banish power politics but contribute to taming its...

... uncertain about each other’s intentions. The chapter concludes by exploring the effects of uncertainty on great power politics. information access problem intentions pessimism Allison Graham Anscombe Elizabeth Butterfield Herbert Johnson Lyndon Kennedy John F Lobell Steven Meir Golda Obama Barack...

... Uncertainty Trust Security competition Great power politics according to british conservative party leader Benjamin Disraeli, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 radically transformed Europe’s political landscape: “You have a new world, new influences at work, new and unknown objects and dangers...

... Forster Hugh Oakley Lascelles Sir Frank Dunne Finley Peter Great rapprochement Anglo-American relations Intentions Uncertainty Trust Security competition Great power politics by most accounts, the fact that the United States surpassed Great Britain as the mightiest state in the Western...

...This chapter addresses territorial politics and the introduction of devolution in Wales. In seeking to reappraise the politics of devolution in Wales, the chapter focuses on the power politics of how devolution was progressed; the chapter also applies the same framework of analysis on understanding...

..., the power politics of seeking to gain power and guide devolution in each country. It addresses the approaches of the devolved governments and the UK Labour government in each case to ensure they achieved what they wanted. The chapter explores the extent to which the neo-Bulpittian propositions hold...

... assaulted their assumptions from without. ⁴² The events of the 1930s made it increasingly impossible to ignore the mounting threat posed by fascist victories around the world. Merriam could no longer sustain the surface aloofness that Power Politics had affected in order to raise...

... to compete intensely with each other for greater security, power, and strategic advantage. The chapter focuses on understanding why power politics endure in the nuclear age, which not only solve a puzzle for international relations theory but also provides vital insights into the requirements of nuclear...

...What stands out from this study of the war aims of great and major powers during the Second World War is their frequent remoteness from the world as it was to be after 1945. This is most evident in the transition of Germany and Japan from violent power politics to peaceful liberal democracies...

... by power politics, rather than the juvenile idealized universe of moral certitudes, in which the upholders of truth and justice battle against the forces of darkness. It is impossible to identify whether the costumed adventurers in Watchmen are to be considered heroes or villains...

...This chapter investigates the extent to which the struggle against the anti-German Spirit is German in origin. Kraus's “Prayer to the Sun of Gibeon,” misinterpreted when it appeared in 1916, highlights the absurdity of a world of power politics in which the pan-German present uncannily converged...

.... 251 DiGiuseppe, Matthew.   2015 . “ Guns, Butter, and Debt: Sovereign Creditworthiness and Military Expenditure. ” Journal of Peace Research 52 (5): 680–693. Drezner, Daniel W.   2009 . “ Bad Debts: Assessing China’s Financial Influence in Great Power Politics...