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The international system and the clash of world orders
In 1945, humanity came together to create the Charter International System. It expressed the hope that after the most catastrophic war the world had...
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From ‘the global’ to ‘the local’: the future of ‘cooperative orders’ in Central Eurasia in times of complexity
Living in times of increasing complexity is hard; it becomes even harder with the realisation of diminishing control. How do we adapt our governance...
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Multilateral Security: Common, Cooperative or Collective
MultilateralismMultilateralism has become an essential feature of international securityInternational security, but its nature may vary significantly...
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Complexity in China’s current role in multilateral orders
Rather than the prescribed scenario of a Thucydides Trap or a Kindleberger Trap, the global system will see a Transitional Reformation process of...
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Assessing Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for a “Common” and “Cooperative” Security Approach
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a tremendous loss of life worldwide and has resulted in significant economic disruption both at the...
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Regional Security Orders and International Transformations: The Transatlantic Adaptation and Change
The chapter focuses on the process of regional adaptation in the context of world order transformation. It discusses the ways regional security...
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The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era
The paper aims to address the development of China’s narrative power during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on world order. It argues that in...
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Fast-Paced Spill-Back Effect
This chapter focuses on the concept of “spill back” in the context of a cooperative arrangement being fractured, specifically due to geographical or...
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Tokyo’s Linked CO2 Cap-and-Trade Program: A Blueprint for Cooperative Market-Based Megacity Climate Policy?
Megacities play a key role in climate policy. In this regard, Tokyo—the world’s biggest metropolis—leads the world with respect to the use of local...
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Connectivity and Order: an Analytical Framework
IR literature has become inundated with different descriptions for the future of international order. The coming age is purportedly marked by China’s...
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Moving toward global governance through the Belt and Road Initiative: how the global axis is shifting from west to east
The world is witnessing a transformation of the global order from Pax Americana to Pax Asiana with the twenty-first century Information Revolution....
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Belgium: Cooperation Out of Necessity and Confirmation of Executive Dominance
Overall, Belgium’s governance of the pandemic showed elements of continuity and some—perhaps lasting—changes. The early phases of the pandemic...
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Contentious Connectivity—the USA, Japan, and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific
This article explores how the USA and Japan have aimed to advance connectivity and infrastructure investment in the Indo-Pacific, implicitly or...
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Comparative Conclusions
This chapter draws comparative conclusion about the role and place of local governments in 16 federal or federal-type countries and explores their...
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Resolving Problems and Overcoming Contradictions through Global Law and Institutions: A Post-Deutschian Perspective
Examining the gridlock and decline of global governance in the 2000s–2020s, I show its deeper political economy underpinnings. Apart from attempts to...
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International Stability and Risky States: The Enforcement of Norms
The riskiness of a state can mean several things. They can be risky to their own society, in their external relations, or pose risks to the entire...
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Negotiating regional order: regional power influences on nuclear nonproliferation in East Asia
In this paper, we explore the relationship between regional powers and security norms by examining the influence of the liberal international order...
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Whose Status Quo Is It, Anyway? Regions, Hierarchies, and Satisfaction
Growing dissatisfaction with the global status quo, combined with heightened assertiveness by China, Russia, and several middle powers reveals...
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Self-Management: Towards a Revolution in the Process, Organisation and Division of Labour
The last part (“Work, Democratic Experiments”) discusses actual experiments that combine the processes of democratisation of work and democratisation...
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Brazil
With the aim of understanding the place and role of municipalities in the Brazilian federation, this chapter begins with an overview of the country’s...