Strategic Regions in 21st Century Power Politics
Subtitle: Zones of Consensus and Zones of Conflict
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781443871341; 9781322335575; 9781443866804
Subjects: International relations; Balance of power; Relations internationales; Équilibre des puissances; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Geopolitics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Economics; General; Reference
Description: Resource wars, identity conflicts, disinformation, geostrategic rivalries, global power shifts, and an increasing number of non-state actors, make it difficult to analyse contemporary international relations. At the same time, contemporary power rivalries are increasingly affected by currency wars, economic diplomacy, competitive intelligence, economic warfare, indirect strategies, and state capitalism. The events in Ukraine in Spring 2014 reconfirm that Thomas Friedman's flattening of the world (based on the coincidence of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the emergence of Netscape and the.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; INDEX