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China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due
to their geography, population size and material resources. Now
their spectacular economic growth has led many commentators to
predict a shift in power from West to East and the dawn of an
"Asian century" based on Asian values. But what are these values?
Does economic power neatly translate into political power? Will
China and India wish to challenge the existing ethical framework of
international society? This volume argues that it is vital to
understand how China and India view international society in order
to anticipate their impact as they achieve ascendancy. It explores
the evolution of these states' attitudes towards concepts such as
sovereignty, international society, power transitions, normative
power, and ethical trends, and addresses how they have sought to
promote their own normative identities and policy agenda thus far.
Unpicking common assumptions about these rising powers, this book
engages in a systematic consideration of the ethical attitudes of
China and India in the national context and goes on to examine how
those translate into their interactions with international society.
Two of the dominant themes of discussion in international relations
scholarship over the last decade have been global governance and
rising powers. Underlying both discussions are profound ethical
questions about how the world should be ordered, who is responsible
for addressing global problems, how change can be managed, and how
global governance can be made to work for peoples in developing as
well as developed states. Yet, these are often not addressed or
only briefly mentioned as ethical dilemmas by commentators. This
book seeks to ask critical and profound questions about what
relative shifts in power among states might mean for the ethics and
practice of global governance. Three key questions are addressed
throughout the volume: Who is rising and how? How does this impact
on global governance? What are the implications of these
developments for global ethics? Through these questions, some of
the key academics in the field explore how far debates over global
ethics are really between competing visions of how international
society should be governed, as opposed to tensions within the same
broad paradigm. By examining how governance works in practice
across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the contributors to this
volume seek to critique the way global governance discourse masks
the exercise of power by elites and states, both developed and
rising. This work will be essential reading for all those with an
interest in the future of international relations and global
governance.
Two of the dominant themes of discussion in international relations
scholarship over the last decade have been global governance and
rising powers. Underlying both discussions are profound ethical
questions about how the world should be ordered, who is responsible
for addressing global problems, how change can be managed, and how
global governance can be made to work for peoples in developing as
well as developed states. Yet, these are often not addressed or
only briefly mentioned as ethical dilemmas by commentators. This
book seeks to ask critical and profound questions about what
relative shifts in power among states might mean for the ethics and
practice of global governance. Three key questions are addressed
throughout the volume: Who is rising and how? How does this impact
on global governance? What are the implications of these
developments for global ethics? Through these questions, some of
the key academics in the field explore how far debates over global
ethics are really between competing visions of how international
society should be governed, as opposed to tensions within the same
broad paradigm. By examining how governance works in practice
across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the contributors to this
volume seek to critique the way global governance discourse masks
the exercise of power by elites and states, both developed and
rising. This work will be essential reading for all those with an
interest in the future of international relations and global
governance.
China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due
to their geography, population size and material resources. Now
their spectacular economic growth has led many commentators to
predict a shift in power from West to East and the dawn of an
"Asian century" based on Asian values. But what are these values?
Does economic power neatly translate into political power? Will
China and India wish to challenge the existing ethical framework of
international society? This volume argues that it is vital to
understand how China and India view international society in order
to anticipate their impact as they achieve ascendancy. It explores
the evolution of these states' attitudes towards concepts such as
sovereignty, international society, power transitions, normative
power, and ethical trends, and addresses how they have sought to
promote their own normative identities and policy agenda thus far.
Unpicking common assumptions about these rising powers, this book
engages in a systematic consideration of the ethical attitudes of
China and India in the national context and goes on to examine how
those translate into their interactions with international society.
Exploring how intelligence professionals view accountability in the
context of twenty-first century politics.How can democratic
governments hold intelligence and security agencies accountable
when what they do is largely secret? Using the UK as a case study,
this book addresses this question by providing the first systematic
exploration of how accountability is understood inside the secret
world. It is based on new interviews with current and former UK
intelligence practitioners, as well as extensive research into the
performance and scrutiny of the UK intelligence machinery. The
result is the first detailed analysis of how intelligence
professionals view their role, what they feel keeps them honest,
and how far external overseers impact on their work Moving beyond
the conventional focus on oversight, the book examines how
accountability works in the day to day lives of these
organizations, and considers the impact of technological and social
changes, such as artificial intelligence and social media. The UK
is a useful case study as it is an important actor on the global
intelligence scene, gathering material that helps inform global
decisions on such issues as nuclear proliferation, terrorism,
transnational crime, and breaches of international humanitarian
law. On the flip side, the UK was a major contributor to the
intelligence failures leading to the Iraq war in 2003, and its
agencies were complicit in the widely discredited U.S. practices of
torture and 'rendition' of terrorism suspects. UK agencies have
come under greater scrutiny since those actions, but it is clear
that problems remain. The book concludes with a series of
suggestions for improvement, including the creation of intelligence
ethics committees, allowing the public more input into intelligence
decisions. The issues explored in this book have important
implications for researchers, intelligence professionals,
overseers, and the public when it comes to understanding and
scrutinizing intelligence practice.
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