Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel Professor - Order and Disorder in the International System

Series Editor: Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Interdisciplinary Global Studies Research Initiative,
Center for Business and Economic Development,
Auburn Montgomery, USA

The Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series reflects a recognition that globalization is leading to fundamental changes in the world order, creating new imperatives and requiring new ways of understanding the international system. It is increasingly clear that the next century will be characterized by issues that transcend national and cultural boundaries, shaped by competitive forces and features of economic globalization yet to be fully evaluated and understood. Comparative and comprehensive in concept, this series explores the relationship between transnational and regional issues through the lens of widely applicable interdisciplinary methodologies and analytic models. The series consists of innovative monographs and collections of essays representing the best of contemporary research, designed to transcend disciplinary boundaries in seeking to better understand a globalizing world.

The New Security Environment
The Impact on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Roger E. Kanet
ISBN 978-0-7546-4330-2

Sovereignty and the Global Community
The Quest for Order in the International System
Edited by Howard M. Hensel
ISBN 978-0-7546-4199-5

International Order in a Globalizing World
Edited by Yannis A. Stivachtis
ISBN 978-0-7546-4930-4

Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences
Edited by Jessica M. Shadian and Monica Tennberg
ISBN 978-0-7546-7399-6

Edited by
SAI FELICIA KRISHNA-HENSEL
Auburn Montgomery, USA

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Order and disorder in the international system. -- (Global interdisciplinary studies series)

1. International relations--History--21st century. 2. World politics--21st century.
I. Series II. Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia.
327.09051-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia.

Order and disorder in the international system / by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel.

p. cm. -- (Global interdisciplinary studies series)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-0505-4 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-9902-1 1. International relations. 2. International relations--History--21st century. I. Title.

JZ1308.K75 2010
327.1--dc22

2010029877

ISBN 9781409405054 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315599021 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781317085263 (ebk-ePUB)

Murat emrek, Associate Professor, Selcuk University, Turkey

Tian Jia-Dong, Associate Professor, Westfield State College, USA

Pawel Frankowski, Assistant Professor, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

Francesco Giumelli, Senior Lecturer, Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, President and Program Chair CISS/ISA; Director, Interdisciplinary Global Studies Initiative, Auburn Montgomery, USA

Tanya Narozhna, Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Erdem zlk, Selcuk University, Turkey

Natalia Piskunova, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia

Glen Segell, Director, London Security Policy Study, United Kingdom

Irma Slomczynska, Assistant Professor, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

The study of international relations is a challenging endeavour. Nevertheless, scholars attempt it by putting together divergent perspectives to achieve an objective world view to help policy planners to undertake fruitful initiatives at regional and global levels. An admirable attempt has been made in this book to study the complexities in international relations away from a traditional national perspective. Scholars from around the world have studied trends in the globalized world both evolutionary and revolutionary be they in the field of communications or financial transactions, educational standards or scientific developments, attempt by force or terror to set right perceived historical grievances. They have studied fault lines of religions, ethnicity and poverty cutting across national boundaries. Countries like India and China pose particular challenges to a political study, because they are developing fast while still manifesting traditional social and regional distortions among their huge populations.

The regional alliances and free trade areas have given rise to hopes for a post-national and post-Westphalia system of world governance, guided by issues of human rights, transparency, and good political conduct. At the same time, piracy in coastal areas or sea lanes, cross-border terrorism and internal insurgencies require determined and firm action by states, often blurring the boundaries of good conduct by states.

If this volume helps in a better understanding of the issues in todays world, the labour of so many scholars would be rewarded. We can then hope to leave a world free from rancour and grief for succeeding generations.

Shri Shashank

(Fmr) Foreign Secretary
Government of India

The Westphalian system is characterized by the nation-state as the primary actor in the global arena. The contemporary period, however, has witnessed the increasing importance of non-state actors, and even individuals, as key players in international relations. In short, the range of actors and their ability to influence the distribution of power and, in the largest sense, the global order, has changed in response to historical imperatives that include, among other factors, ideologies, economic and trade structures, and technological developments. This volume examines the complex international system of the twenty-first century from a variety of perspectives. Incorporating both critical theoretical perspectives, as well as case studies, the chapters focus on broad trends, as well as micro-realities of a complex international system. The process of transformation and change of the international system has been an ongoing cumulative process. Many forces, including conflict, technological innovation, and communication have contributed to the creation of a trans-national world with political, economic, and social implications for all societies. Trans-nationalism functions both as an integrative factor and one which exposes the existing and the newly emerging divisions between societies and cultures and between nations and states. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that re-thinking fundamental assumptions, as well as theoretical and methodological premises is central to understanding the dynamics of interdependence.