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
Rising powers and foreign intrastate armed conflicts : trends and patterns of China’s intervention in African civil wars
Rising Powers and Foreign Intrastate Armed Conflicts: Trends and Patterns of China’s Intervention in African Civil Wars
The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1