The State Between Interdependence and Power in the Contemporary World: A Reassessment

ISBN-13: 9782807602571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Pierre Vercauteren;Elena Aoun

Opis

This book analyzes the evolutions confronting the state in the contemporary international system from the double perspective of power and interdependence in a complex environment characterized by the rise of new, non-state actors, the globalization, and the impact their interactions have on both the state and earlier configurations of power.

Spis treści

Elena Aoun and Pierre Vercauteren : Reassessing the State: Interdependence and Power in the World Today - Tanguy Struye de Swielande and Dorothée Vandamme: Relations and Processes: Two Neglected Characteristics of Power - Pierre Vercauteren : Emerging Powers: Between Interdependence and Power? - Bruno Hellendorff: A Constructivist Form of Hedging in Southeast Asia - Elena Atanassova-Cornelis : Competition and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Why Major Powers Hedge and what Does this Mean for Regional Order - Amine Ait-Chaalal : Brazil under President Lula: A New Key Player in the Contemporary World - Dawisson Belém Lopes : When Crisis Breeds Regional Governance: How the Developmental State Bankruptcy Led Brazil to Innovate in Foreign Policy and Wield "Soft Power" all over Latin America - Alain Guggenbühl and Frank Lambermont : The State Muddled in Co-Dependencies and Incremental Policy-Making: The Case of the Economic and Financial Crisis in the European Union - Sidney Leclercq and Geoffroy Matagne : Belgian Development Cooperation and the Promotion of Good Governance: Testing the Power of Incentives in Central Africa - Corinne Mellul : Globalization and Democracy: Friends or Foes? - Elena Aoun : Failing States, International Blindness and the Rise of Radical Islam: Unintended Interdependence and Unexpected Powerlessness in the Middle East

O autorze

Elena Aoun holds a PhD from Science Po Paris and is currently assistant professor in International Relations at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her research interests revolve around EU foreign policy, the conflicts and crises in the Middle East and international involvement in the region.

Pierre Vercauteren is professor in International Relations at the Université catholique de Louvain and visiting professor at the Université Paris Est, and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil. He is also secretary general of the international research network REGIMEN.