Understanding the Emerging Era of International Competition: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

Mazarr, Michael J.; Blake, Jonathan S.; Casey, Abigail; McDonald, Tim; Pézard, Stéphanie; Spirtas, Michael

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“…Water supplies in Brazil, oil and natural gas in Russia, and iron and coal ore in India are all highly relevant. China currently ranks most elementary in antimony, barite, vanadium, zinc, magnesite, plaster stone, pyrite, tungsten, titanium, fluorite, graphite resources, tin, coal, asbestos, and molybdenum deposits, and talcum (Mazarr et al, 2018).…”

Section: Power Transition From the Middle Ages Till World War Imentioning

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Power Transition and Global International Order

Khan

2022

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Power is the main reason to rule over the world. The concept of power transition is started when a country has risen in economic growth and gained military power and reaches the level of its challenger,and also had its place at the top of the international order and the hunger for power led the country to reach the maximum extent. This is due to the fact when a country gets power and establishes a great economic system, it wants to get in the top position in the international order and also save its interest in the world.The global international order has seen several power transitions from empire to empire, region to region,and then country to country. The study is a qualitative analysis of past events of power transition in the global world. It also focused on the causes and prospects of power transition in the past and the future,respectively.

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Section: Power Transition From the Middle Ages Till World War Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Power Transition and Global International Order

Khan

2022

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“…The return of this form of competition, however, cannot be abstracted from the underlying institutional and economic architecture of a complex and heavily interdependent global political economy and media system. In the new era of inter-state competition, the "dominant measure of standing" is not "military", but "economic, informational, and geopolitical" (Mazarr et. al.…”

Section: New Challenges: 'Great Power Competition' and 'Weaponized Independence'mentioning

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Competition in World Politics

2021

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Cover layout: Kordula Röckenhaus, Bielefeld Cover illustration: James Gillray, ʻThe Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State epicures taking un petit souper' (1805), public domain. 'World Politics as Competition': Norms and StructuresThis short conceptual history of competition as both a normative ideal and an analytical category shows that there is a much richer tradition of thinking about competition than the conventional IR literature assumes. Drawing on this brief account, we now turn to a more extended definition of what we understand to be a configuration of world politics in which competition is central. This, we argue, will possess both normative and structural features.A configuration of world politics in which competition is viewed to be central is in the first instance a world of notionally equal, sovereign states-even if, in practice, the key participants in international competition are a select group of "great powers" (Müller 2020). These share a common set of cultural expectations, and means of communication, that enable mutual observation and compari-'Competition' became a central concept in international theory in the late 1940s, when Hans Morgenthau distinguished two constellations of the balance of power -the "pattern of direct opposition" and the "pattern of competition"-in his first version of Politics Among Nations (Morgenthau 1948: 131-133). The Simmel-style "pattern of competition" describes a triadic structure, in which two imperialist powers compete in their domination of a third, smaller power. In the face of the Korean war, Morgenthau dedicated in subsequent editions an entire subsection to it, thus enhancing its status as a theoretical concept (Morgenthau 1954: 162-165) From this point on, students of international relations could relate the balance of power to competition by merely glimpsing at a classic's table of contents. However, Morgenthau's concept of competition and opposition are not as structuralist as his famous metaphor of billiard balls suggest. In fact, the "patterns" are a way to systemize the ways in which the balance of power can be sustained or disturbed; within these constellations, there can as well not be competition (Wendt 1992: 395-396; Little 2007: 93).Daniela Russ & James Stafford attention to both the symbolic and material dimensions of domination and struggle within world politics (Mérand/Pouliot 2008: 609). According to Bourdieu, fields are configurations of objective relations between positions (Bourdieu/Wacquant 1992: 97). These relations are always changing: "As a space of potential and active forces, the field is also a field of struggles aimed at preserving or transforming the configuration of these forces" (ibid: 101). The field concept conceives of international politics as a "competitive realm" as Waltz had done, but without making it into an ahistorical structure: the positions, borders, capitals and rules of the field are subject to the field's struggle (ibid: 99-100).Political scientists and sociologists began to diagnose "competition states" in the g...

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“…Aunque la propuesta de Wilson tuvo gran acogida y promovió la creación de la Sociedad de Naciones, dicha iniciativa no tuvo éxito debido a dos razones fundamentales: en primer lugar, el Congreso de los Estados Unidos se opuso rotundamente manteniendo una postura aislacionista en su política exterior; y, en segundo lugar, las grandes potencias no encontraron los incentivos suficientes para participar en lo que sería esta nueva estructura de seguridad internacional (Mazarr et al, 2018).…”

Section: La Realpolitik Como Medio Para Garantizar La Seguridad Internacionalunclassified

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2020

Rol De Naciones Unidas en Los Conflictos Armados Contemporáneos: Casos De Estudio: Libia, Siria Y Nigeria

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El presente capítulo aborda cronológicamente la evolución de la seguridad colectiva, cuyas raíces parten de una concepción imperial que dominó las dinámicas de la guerra en Europa y que, finalmente, desencadenarían la Primera Guerra Mundial. El siglo xx fue marcado por sesgos ideológicos que crearon la bipolaridad propia del periodo y que profundizaron todavía más el realismo político imperante en el sistema internacional. La destrucción dejada por la Segunda Guerra Mundial sería el catalizador que facilitaría la creación de una organización supranacional que finalmente se encargase de garantizar la paz y la seguridad internacionales. Finalmente, la modernidad trae inmensos retos en materia de seguridad derivados de una nueva forma de conflictividad en la que los actores estatales no se enfrentan entre sí, sino que se enfrentan (o patrocinan) a organizaciones que representan identidades políticas, religiosas, o raciales frente a las cuales la Organización de las Naciones Unidas desafortunadamente no tiene injerencia alguna.

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Understanding the Emerging Era of International Competition: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Power Transition and Global International Order

Power Transition and Global International Order

Competition in World Politics

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