Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00502-3
Björn Alexander Düben, Heidi Wang-Kaeding
{"title":"Don’t let a good crisis go to waste: China’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war","authors":"Björn Alexander Düben, Heidi Wang-Kaeding","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00502-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00502-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135014574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00508-x
Renato Cruz De Castro
{"title":"The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality","authors":"Renato Cruz De Castro","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00508-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00508-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135436836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00506-z
See Seng Tan
{"title":"Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?","authors":"See Seng Tan","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00506-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00506-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134913104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00503-2
Michelle Egan, Mark Webber
Abstract Brexit has led to major changes in UK trade policy after decades of collective trade agreements and regulatory alignment with the European Union. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the idea of ‘Global Britain’ was touted as the central goal in securing policy autonomy and regulatory independence with respect to trade, rooted in a strong sense of liberalization unencumbered by the perceived constraints of European membership. This article suggests that the UK’s role conception as a global trading (and finance) state has been revived by Brexit. Yet the performance of this role has been mixed. Role adaptation is far from complete, and evidence from the postreferendum period suggests that the post-Brexit economy has failed to fulfil the optimistic expectations of the those who favoured Brexit. In trade, the UK has been buffeted by the post-Brexit relationship with the EU and the changing demands of the global political economy.
{"title":"Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy","authors":"Michelle Egan, Mark Webber","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00503-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00503-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Brexit has led to major changes in UK trade policy after decades of collective trade agreements and regulatory alignment with the European Union. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the idea of ‘Global Britain’ was touted as the central goal in securing policy autonomy and regulatory independence with respect to trade, rooted in a strong sense of liberalization unencumbered by the perceived constraints of European membership. This article suggests that the UK’s role conception as a global trading (and finance) state has been revived by Brexit. Yet the performance of this role has been mixed. Role adaptation is far from complete, and evidence from the postreferendum period suggests that the post-Brexit economy has failed to fulfil the optimistic expectations of the those who favoured Brexit. In trade, the UK has been buffeted by the post-Brexit relationship with the EU and the changing demands of the global political economy.","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00509-w
Olivia Nantermoz, Aslihan Turan
Abstract This paper argues that humanitarian logics have been integral to the constitution and historical evolution of international society and its primary institutions. Whilst Watson was chiefly interested in the raison de système which brought states together in the consolidation and preservation of an international society, he did not dedicate as much attention to how humanitarian concerns have historically been embedded in the structure of both statehood and international society. We introduce the concept of raison de l’humanité to capture this fundamental concern for protecting human lives, alleviating human suffering and mobilising compassion and solidarity in politics. We show how this raison de l’humanité has historically complemented and reinforced (rather than undermined) the workings of international society and its raison de système . We illustrate this argument by examining the humanitarian responsibilities historically associated with sovereignty and their contemporary expression in the responsibility to protect (R2P) doctrine. Instead of uncritically celebrating this raison de l’humanité as a universal and morally progressive force in global politics, however, this paper stresses the need to attend to the hierarchies, exclusions and sacrifices produced by appeals to humanity and humanitarian logics. Taking this raison de l’humanité seriously therefore requires tracing how throughout history, appeals to humanity have oscillated between solidarity and violence, inclusion and exclusion, equality and hierarchy. This brings us back, in turn, to Watson’s project of historical documentation of the varying workings of international society.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00501-4
Kristi Govella
{"title":"Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea","authors":"Kristi Govella","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00501-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00501-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00507-y
Lauro Borges
{"title":"Leading sectors and polarity change in the context of US–China competition: a process-based analysis of the origins of polarity shift","authors":"Lauro Borges","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00507-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00507-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135741919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00510-3
Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher
Abstract States enact relations with both important partners and seemingly irrelevant countries. The non-strategic constitutes the larger set; a histogram could visualize them in a long-tailed distribution, with the x -axis denoting the partner countries, and the y -axis showing the interaction density. Investigating the function of this long tail, this paper premises that the international is characterized by complexity, meaning that the number of elements is so large that it is impossible to realize all relations simultaneously. States thus select their diplomatic partners based on power-rationales. The thereby inactive nodes nevertheless pose sources of danger, requiring occasional signals of amity—hence a long tail comes about. A repertoire of cheap and quick but unambiguously sovereign practices (such as Twiplomacy, gifts, or honorary consulates) can be spontaneously activated to fill otherwise neglected inter-state ties. Seemingly trivial gestures thus ensure peace among plural polities under the constraint of systemic complexity.
{"title":"Diplomatic complexity and long-tailed distributions: the function of non-strategic bilateral relations","authors":"Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00510-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00510-3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract States enact relations with both important partners and seemingly irrelevant countries. The non-strategic constitutes the larger set; a histogram could visualize them in a long-tailed distribution, with the x -axis denoting the partner countries, and the y -axis showing the interaction density. Investigating the function of this long tail, this paper premises that the international is characterized by complexity, meaning that the number of elements is so large that it is impossible to realize all relations simultaneously. States thus select their diplomatic partners based on power-rationales. The thereby inactive nodes nevertheless pose sources of danger, requiring occasional signals of amity—hence a long tail comes about. A repertoire of cheap and quick but unambiguously sovereign practices (such as Twiplomacy, gifts, or honorary consulates) can be spontaneously activated to fill otherwise neglected inter-state ties. Seemingly trivial gestures thus ensure peace among plural polities under the constraint of systemic complexity.","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00498-w
Kazuto Matsuda, Nikolay Kozhanov
{"title":"Not Just hydrocarbons: Japan’s multifaceted foreign policy approaches towards the GCC states","authors":"Kazuto Matsuda, Nikolay Kozhanov","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00498-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00498-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42435480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00477-1
Lukas Kantor
{"title":"Elite clubs as career elevator? Mixed evidence from the Bilderberg Group","authors":"Lukas Kantor","doi":"10.1057/s41311-023-00477-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00477-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46245967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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