The Transition of Global Order: Legitimacy and Contestation
1. Global Orders: Contestation and Transition 2. Order Transition, Systemic Legitimacy and Institutionalization 3. Order Transition in a Hybrid Environment 4. Order Transition, Common Culture and Exceptional Worldviews 5. Order Transition and Effectiveness 6. Renegotiating the Security-related Rules of Global Order 7. Renegotiating the Environmental Rules of Global Order 8. Renegotiating the Ideology-related Aspects of Global Order 9. Conclusion: The Politics of Sovereignty and the Failure of the Global Governance Concept
IB-Professionalität als Praxisferne? Ein Plädoyer für Wandel
ZusammenfassungParteiübergreifend gibt es Forderungen nach einem neuen Praxisverhältnis der deutschen Internationalen Beziehungen (IB) zur praktischen Außenpolitik. Der Beitrag zeigt zunächst, warum dieses Verhältnis heute weithin als Nicht-Verhältnis betrachtet werden muss. Sodann werden die globale Machtverschiebung, die Distanzierung eines Teils des intellektuellen Milieus von der Demokratie und die hohe Zahl an Absolventen, die beruflich keine Hochschulkarriere anstreben, als Gründe für eine notwendige Neuausrichtung dargestellt. Abschließend wird der Begriff Praxisbezug konzeptionell aufgefächert und sieben Vorschläge gemacht, die einer Perpetuierung des Status quo entgegenwirken können.AbstractGerman International Relations (IR) faces demands from the policy world to provide concise input, whereas a clear theory-practice disconnect is evident. However, the articles argues that there are three reasons which demand from IR theorists to re-think this state of affairs: global power shifts, their responsibility vis-à-vis graduates who do not aim to become scholars and the distancing of many scholars from democratic discourses related to global politics. Lastly, the author makes seven innovative suggestions as to how improve the current malaise of the policy disconnect.
China in International Society: Is ‘Peaceful Rise’ Possible?
This article reviews China’s position in international society over the past couple of centuries, and against that background assesses the prospects for China’s strategy of ‘peaceful rise’. I stick to the label ‘peaceful rise’ because it is a more accurate statement of the issues than the more anodyne and diplomatic ‘peaceful development’ which has recently replaced it in official Chinese discourse.1 I understand ‘peaceful rise’ to mean that a growing power is able to make both absolute and relative gains in both its material and its status positions, in relation to the other powers in the international system, and to do so without precipitating major hostilities between itself and either its neighbours or other major powers. Peaceful rise involves a two-way process in which the rising power accommodates itself to rules and structures of international society, while at the same time other powers accommodate some changes in those rules and structures by way of adjusting to the new disposition of power and status. I am not going to question whether China will rise or not, though this is done by some.2 Instead, I take China’s continued rise as given, and explore whether its peaceful rise is possible within contemporary international society.