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Exploring how changes in advanced technology deeply affect
international politics, this book theoretically engages with the
overriding relevance of investments in technological research, and
the ways in which they directly foster a country's economic and
military standing. Scholars and practitioners present important
insights on the technical and social issues at the core of
technology competition. Technology and International Relations
emphasizes the importance of leadership styles, domestic political
agendas and the relative weight of technologically driven countries
in global affairs. It highlights the now widely shared belief among
both developed and developing countries that technology will be the
defining factor in international politics. The book also unpacks
the complexity of real-life cases of key technological advances,
including artificial intelligence, UAVs, satellites and the
responses of governments and the private sector to rising
technological challenges. This will be an important read for
scholars of political science, international relations and
international political economy, particularly those looking at the
impact of technology and innovation.
Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions
provides the first comprehensive analysis of stabilization, which
constitutes the new reference point for international intervention
in unruly parts of the Global South. The notion of 'stabilization'
and the practice of 'stability operations' experienced a revival
over the last decade. The United Nations, the European Union, NATO,
as well as most member states of the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development have embraced these terms in their
foreign policy bureaucracies. The general disillusionment with the
achievements of large-scale peacebuilding operations in countries
like Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the failures of the so-called
Arab Springs, contributed to the success of this new discourse.
Yet, while widely mentioned and endorsed, stabilization is rarely
defined. This volume identifies common elements to stabilization
doctrines and examines how they are applied in practice. It
dissects how stabilization emerged and unfolds, how different
actors adopt it and for what purposes, and how it is linked to the
broader security and development discourses. Stabilization as the
New Normal in International Interventions will be of great interest
to scholars of Peacebuilding, International Intervention and
International Relations more generally. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.
European armed forces have undergone deep changes in the past two
decades. Given the breadth of the debate and the size of
transformations that took place, it is somewhat surprising that
relatively few academic studies have directly dealt with changes in
force structure of European militaries, and the Italian armed
forces in particular. The focus of this book is the organizational
dimension of the restructuring of armed forces through 3 different
lenses: doctrine and strategic framework, budget and resource
allocation, and force structure and deployment. The key issues
addressed relate to how these factors interact in shaping
transformation. Of particular interest is the theme of learning,
which is how armed forces endogenize change in the short and long
run. This study provides valuable insights into the extent to which
armed forces manage to adapt to the emerging strategic and
operational challenges they have to face and to illustrate the
weight of institutional legacies, resource constraints and
inter-organizational learning in shaping transformation. Focusing
on the Italian case in comparative perspective and based on a large
variety of military operations from airstrikes to peacekeeping and
counterinsurgency, the book provides an innovative viewpoint on
military transformation and significantly contributes to our
understanding of contemporary security that is deeply shaped by the
lessons learnt in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq and Libya.
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