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This collection of invaluable essays explores, analyzes and
critically evaluates the interaction between globalization and New
Zealand sovereignty. The volume is the first to seriously address
this subject in a systematic fashion. It pursues three interrelated
lines of enquiry: the impact of globalization on the policy making
machinery of the New Zealand state; the development of New Zealand
political culture, including its sense of national identity; during
the globalization era; and New Zealand's role on the international
stage in a globalizing world. The book reveals the paradoxes of New
Zealand's encounter with globalization. It will provide essential
reading for specialists of globalization and for general readers
interested in the complex national experience of New Zealand.
This collection of invaluable essays explores, analyzes and
critically evaluates the interaction between globalization and New
Zealand sovereignty. The volume is the first to seriously address
this subject in a systematic fashion. It pursues three interrelated
lines of enquiry: the impact of globalization on the policy making
machinery of the New Zealand state; the development of New Zealand
political culture, including its sense of national identity; during
the globalization era; and New Zealand's role on the international
stage in a globalizing world. The book reveals the paradoxes of New
Zealand's encounter with globalization. It will provide essential
reading for specialists of globalization and for general readers
interested in the complex national experience of New Zealand.
This ground-breaking volume considers the ethical aspects of
foreign policy change through five interrelated dimensions:
conceptual, security, economic, normative and diplomatic. Defining
ethics and what an ethical foreign policy should be is highly
contested. The book includes many very different viewpoints to
reflect the strong divergence of opinion on such issues as
humanitarian intervention, free trade, the doctrine of preemption,
political corruption and human rights. The thematic approach
provides this volume with a clear organizational structure, giving
readers a balanced overview of a number of important conceptual and
practical issues central to the ethical analysis of states' conduct
and foreign policy making. An impressive group of international
scholars and practitioners, including a New Zealand Foreign
Minister, a US National Security Advisor, and an ICJ Justice, makes
this volume ideally suited to courses on international relations,
security studies, ethics and human rights, philosophy, media
studies and international law.
The conventional wisdom since the suicide attacks of 9/11 is that
the world has been transformed and, according to President Bush,
"September 11 changed the strategic thinking" of the US.
Challenging both of these assumptions, this volume highlights the
gap between the new security environment and the notion of
state-centered national security favored by Washington, and shows
how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in
which defense and foreign policy interests essentially converge,
remains largely intact. Indeed, the Bush administration's National
Security strategy of 2002 has reinvigorated and even extended the
idea of national security.
Paradoxically, the renewed emphasis on a distinctly state-centered
approach to security, including the war on terror, has unfolded
during an era of deepening globalization. This book is one of the
first major attempts to identify what is novel and what is constant
in today's strategic landscape.
Drawing on the international expertise of fourteen specialists, the
book examines four inter-related themes. These embrace the impact
of globalization on the concept of security; the strategic outlook
of the world's only superpower, the US; the new conflicts that have
come to characterize the post-Cold War era; and efforts to regulate
the emerging patterns of conflict in the world.
This volume will be essential reading for students of strategic
studies, security studies and international relations.
This book brings together a unique team of academics and
practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues
affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to
Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world's economic
and strategic centre of gravity, in which established and rising
powers compete with each other. As a strategic space, the
Indo-Pacific reflects the rise of geo-political and geo-economic
designs and dynamics which have come to shape the region in the
early twenty-first century. These new dynamics contrast with the
(neo-)liberal ideas and the seemingly increasing globalisation for
which the once dominant 'Asia-Pacific' regional label stood.
This book brings together a unique team of academics and
practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues
affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to
Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world's economic
and strategic centre of gravity, in which established and rising
powers compete with each other. As a strategic space, the
Indo-Pacific reflects the rise of geo-political and geo-economic
designs and dynamics which have come to shape the region in the
early twenty-first century. These new dynamics contrast with the
(neo-)liberal ideas and the seemingly increasing globalisation for
which the once dominant 'Asia-Pacific' regional label stood.
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with an overview of
New Zealand's international relations. It is a country that has
often shown an international presence that is out of proportion to
the modest spectrum of national economic, military and diplomatic
capabilities at its disposal.In this volume, the editors have
called upon a range of specialists representing a range of views
drawn from the worlds of academia, policy-making, and civil
society. It is an attempt to present a rounded picture of New
Zealand's place in the world, one that does not rely exclusively on
any particular perspective. The book does not claim to be
exhaustive. But it does seek to present a more wide-ranging
treatment of New Zealand's foreign relations than has generally
been the case in the past.Five broad themes help shape and organize
the contributions to the text:
This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in
1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed
states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11
attacks. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book argues, it was
not the 9/11 attacks that transformed the international security
environment. Instead, it was "Somali Syndrome," an aversion to
intervening in failed states that began in the wake of the1993
U.S./UN action in Somalia. The botched raid precipitated America's
strategic retreat from its post-Cold War experiment at partnership
with the UN in nation-building and peace enforcement and engendered
U.S. paralysis in the face of genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia, and
Darfur. The ensuing international security vacuum emboldened
al-Qaeda to emerge and attack America and inaugurated our present
era of intrastate conflict, mass killings, forced relocations, and
international terrorism. As this even-handed treatment shows, the
Somali crisis can be connected to seven key features of the
emerging post-Cold War world security order. These include the fact
that failed states are now the main source of world instability and
that new wars are driven by racial, ethnic, and religious identity
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This is an attempt to address the paradoxes of Soviet behaviour in
the Horn of Africa. Dr Patman, editor of the journal Third World in
Soviet Perspective, traces the impact of history, superpower
relationships and competition on Soviet perceptions and motives. Dr
Patman provides a careful historical background to the recent
conflicts and shows how the Soviet Union and its East European
partners dramatically switched from being close allies of Somalia
to allies of Ethiopia and then intervened in the Ethiopian-Somali
war of 1977-8 to ensure the military defeat of their former ally.
However, he does not confine himself simply to retrospective
analysis. He also assesses the Soviet experience in the region in
the period since 1978, and considers in particular the impact of
Gorbachev's thinking and the new diplomacy. The Soviet Union in the
Horn of Africa provides the most detailed examination yet of Soviet
policy.
This is an attempt to address the paradoxes of Soviet behaviour in
the Horn of Africa. Dr Patman, editor of the journal Third World in
Soviet Perspective, traces the impact of history, superpower
relationships and competition on Soviet perceptions and motives. Dr
Patman provides a careful historical background to the recent
conflicts and shows how the Soviet Union and its East European
partners dramatically switched from being close allies of Somalia
to allies of Ethiopia and then intervened in the Ethiopian-Somali
war of 1977-8 to ensure the military defeat of their former ally.
However, he does not confine himself simply to retrospective
analysis. He also assesses the Soviet experience in the region in
the period since 1978, and considers in particular the impact of
Gorbachev's thinking and the new diplomacy. The Soviet Union in the
Horn of Africa provides the most detailed examination yet of Soviet
policy.
As modern foreign policy and international relations encompass more
and more scientific issues, we are moving towards a new type of
diplomacy, known as "Science Diplomacy". Will this new diplomacy of
the 21st century prove to be more effective than past diplomacy for
the big issues facing the world, such as climate change, food and
water insecurity, diminishing biodiversity, pandemic disease,
public health, genomics or environmental collapse, mineral
exploitation, health and international scientific endeavours such
as those in the space and the Antarctic?Providing a new area of
academic focus that has only gathered momentum in the last few
years, this book considers these questions by bringing together a
distinguished team of international specialists to look at various
facets of how diplomacy and science are influenced by each
other.The book not only dissects the ways that politics, science
and diplomacy have become intertwined, but also highlights how the
world's seemingly most intractable problems can be tackled with
international collaboration and diplomacy that is rooted in
science, and driven by technology. It, therefore, challenges the
conventional wisdom concerning the juxtaposition of science and the
world of diplomacy.
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