This multidisciplinary volume examines the meaning of global conflict and cooperation by international actors that can be caused by dis- or misinformation to people and discusses how to build diplomacy for peace and regional cooperation. The book further identifies boundaries of the relationships among the various governments of the world, transatlantic alliances, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, transnational corporations, and the overall interdependence of nations in the making of the modern world.
Topics discussed in this volume include diplomacy, international relations theory, Eurasia politics, European Union, Brexit, Taliban taking over of Kabul government, and the ongoing Afghanistan conflict, terrorism, ISIS and Al Qaeda, international law, international organizations, interstate and intrastate war, threats and challenges, global civil society, religion, and culture. The volume advances contemporary theories and concepts to explain these issues concerning peoples and cultures in the complex world we live in.
The book is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of international relations, political science, political history, political geography, economics, and law in general, as well as diplomacy, political communication, and security studies in particular.
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1. Introduction.- Part 1: Power in Peace Relations.
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2.
The Fix: Why We Cant Solve the Worlds Problems.
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3. The American
Supremacy and Leadership Pre-eminence in NATO: A Test of the Transatlantic
Alliance.
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4. Cosmopolitan Peacekeeping Through International
Humanitarian Order in the Frame of Sustainability and the Global Economy.-
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5. Making Waves: Accessing a Model of Sustainable Peace and
Cooperation Through Qualitative Methodologies.
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6. European Union:
Politics and Policies.
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7. Making War and Building Peace: What Future
for the United Nations and Regional Peace Operations.- Part 2: International
Politics and War on Peace.
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8. Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, (the
West) and the New Cold War.
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9. The Questions of War: Taiwan and
Ukraine.
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10. Populist Sharp Power: How the World Entered a New Cold
War.
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11. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues, Challenges and
Action Proposed.
Chapter12. Barack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth
of Post racism and Public Perception in a New World Order.- Part 3: War,
Diplomacy, Arms Races or Stability.
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13. The End of the Endless
War: Biden's Botched Afghanistan Exit and the Myth of American Decline.-
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14. Nuclear Danger in Asia: Arms Races or Stability?.
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15.
Addressing Disinformation & Misplaced Criticism: The Need for a More
Effective EU Public Diplomacy.
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16. Children, Conflicts, and
International Relations: The International Law and Childrens Human Rights.-
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17. Putin's Russia and the Nuclear War Threat to the West: Everyone
Loses, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.
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18. "Human Security and
Human Rights: Connecting the Global and the Local".- Part 4: Global Security,
Terrorism, and the Role of Force .
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19. "The Battle Against Global
Terrorism the Role of Private Security in the USA and in the EU".
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20. Bringing Law as Interpretation (Through Performance Art) to the Guiding
Principles on Internal Displacement: A Conceptual Framework for Borderlands.-
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21. "The Hidden Figure of a Global Crime: From Human Trafficking to
Human Rights: Complexities and Pitfalls".
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22. George Orwells Animal
Farm Revisited: Situating International Instability - Why? What? Whither?.-
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23. A Spin of the Wheel Co-operation or Competition: Defense
Procurement and Defense Industries in International Relations.
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24.
Islam V. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case
Against Isis.
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25. "Modernizing the U.S. Strategic Land Based Missile
Force: Prudent Necessity or Deterrence Distraction?".- Part 5: Foreign Policy
Analysis.
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26. The New EU-Africa Relations' Strategy: Soft Power or
Neoliberalist Power?.
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27. Britains Economic Relations with Africa
in a Post-Brexit, Post-Elizabethan Future.
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28. Romania: Between
Europeanization and De-Europeanization.
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29. Trojan Horses or Still
Out in the Cold? United States Foreign Relations with Poland: Road Ahead in
the Wake of Russian Rockets Landing in NATO State Poland.
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30. Why
Foreign Policies Fail, and Why Political Scientists Misunderstand Policy
Failure.
Adebowale Akande is one of the world's best-known scholars of cross-cultural studies. As a researcher on SCOPUS, he has been cited numerous times in assorted articles with an H-index of 122/23. On Google scholar, he has been cited 35,008 times in numerous articles with an i10 index of 120 and an H-index of 50. On ResearchGate index 35.30. Akande has held faculty appointments at several international universities. In 1998, he was appointed the first black full professor at a white most prestigious university. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992; the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew UniMICH in 1996. Further, he received the ISP Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor, Indian Institute of Planning and Management, in 2008, andthe IAG Award in 2022. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize (2005) for research on ambivalent sexism. Akandes major research interests mainly focus on relationships among political behavior, political psychology, transnational self-esteem, learning, power, political influence, public affairs, educational studies and prejudice. He is also known as a popularizer of cross-cultural studies. He currently serves as an international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and a guest professor to a number of Canadian Universities in British Columbia, Canada.
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