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
International society’s challenge of targeted killing by drones
Targeted killing by drones is a systemic driven instrumental practice that overrides societal non-instrumental practices that are essential for international society. Doing so, targeted killing by drones is not simply another form of inflicting violence by technical means to political opponents. It also inflicts the agents applying this practice, tempting them to frame it as a permissible measure to preserve international society. The reliance on drones for targeted killing is a pursuit of non-societal practices that seek individual and retributive justice and anticipatory and preventive self-defence by means of force relying on technological advantage. Eventually, this practice permits military tactics to steer political strategy, mitigating standards and practices agreed on in international society’s norms, rules of conduct, and institutions.
The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter one -- Introduction. Chapter two-- Identity. Chapter three -- Polarity in Theory and Practice. Chapter four -- Great Powers -- A Troubled Concept?. Chapter five -- Rethinking Definitions: Superpowers, Great Powers and Regional Powers. Chapter six -- Where We Are Now: One Superpower and Several Great Powers. Chapter seven -- Options for the Future I: Two or Three Superpowers and a Few Great Powers. Chapter eight -- Options for the Future I: Two or Three Superpowers and a Few Great Powers. Chapter nine -- Understanding the Turn in the US Foreign Policy. Chapter ten -- Where to From Here?.