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245 4 _aThe international order at the beginning of the 21st century/
_bTheoretical considerations
_cRiemer, Andrea K
260 _aFrankfurt:
_bPeter Lang,
_c2007.
300 _a241 p.
505 _aINTRODUCTION THE RESEARCH DESIGN 1. RESEARCH FRAMEWORK 1.1. Issuns AND Challenges to Social Sciences and Theories IN THE current SITUATION 1 .2. Between Dilemmas and Solutions in Social Sciences 2. FINDING A VIA MEDIA AND AN EXIT STRATEGY: THE 'OTHER' RESEARCH FRAMEWORK. 3. HYPOTHESES, 4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5. METHODOLOGY 6. THE KEY RESEARCH TARGETS 7. THE RESEARCH STRUCTURE.... 8. VALUE ADDED OF THE RESEARCH WORK PART A: ORDER ANALYSIS. 1. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY, POST-MODERNIST OVERTURE 1.1. How to approach a compllx social Situation?, 1.2. Thf. International Order: Conceptual Considerations 1.3. The International Girder and International Order Complexes; Closer to societal Reality?. 1.4. Cascading Interdependence as new Approach to explain THE Behavior OF THE International Order 2. CHANGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER 2.1. The term'Change* 2.2. How to measure Change?. 2.3. A Taxonomy OF Change 2.4. Sources OF Change 2.5. Change and Forecast: A critical Inventory 2.6. Stability AND Balance 2.7. The Time-Space Calculus as Framework for Change 3. A MATRIX AS A BRIDGE TO UNDERSTAND CHANGE IN THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL ORDER. 3. 1. Levels of Analyses... 3.2. Sectors OF Analyses. 4. SUMMARY ON THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL ORDER FROM A THEORETICAL POINT OF VIEW. PART B: ACTORS: TOWARDS A TAXONOMY 1. ACTORS: UNVEILING THE UNKNOWN... 1.1. The Nation State as the sovereign Actor.... 1.2. The Modern State.. 1.3. The modern State and the Concept of Sovereignty , 1.4. Reflections Regarding the Post-Modern State of THE 21" Century.. 2. REACTIONS OF THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: HAS THE CONCEPT OF STATE BECOME OBSOLETE?... 3. NON-SOVEREIGN ACTORS (NON-STATE ACTORS) 4. CONSEQUENCES FOR THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS: TOWARDS A TAXONOMY 4.1. Basic Deliberations.. 4.2. Order Complexes; A first Step towards a Taxonomy 4.3. Extended Options: A relation and effect-based Approach: The US Approach.., 4.4. An Approach for Smaller States 4.5. Network Considerations 5. ACTORS' TAXONOMY OF THE UNDERLYING RESEARCH WORK.. PART C: THE CONCEPT OF SECURITY: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES 1. THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. 1.1. Defining 'Security' in the Field of IR .... 1.2. Security, Anarchy and Interdependence in the International Order 2. EXISTENTIAL POTENTIALS FOR CHANGE: AN OPTION TO REDUCE COMPLEXITY 2.1. The Key Pillars OF the Concept.. 2.2. The Connections between Security and Existential Potentials for Change 3. THE ^CONCEPT OF SECURITIZATION'. 4. ENHANCING THE APPROACH. 5. SUMMARY. PART D: POTENTIALS FOR CHANGE 1. BASIC DELIBERATIONS ON THE CURRENT CHALLENGE AGENDA.. 2. TERMS AND TERMINOLOGY... 3. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AS KEY DRIVER... 4. INNER CIRCLE TAXONOMY 4.1. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) 4.2. Fundamentalism and Terrorism , 4.3. Consequences of Globalization 4.4. Weak States AND State Failure., 5. OUTER CIRCLE TAXONOMY 5.1. Demographic Trends: Population Growth-Overaging-- Migration 5.2. Environment. 5.3. Technological Change 6. EFFECT NETWORKS . 7. THE REGIONAL EFFECTS. 8. ON THE WAY TO A DESCRIPTIVE TAXONOMY OF POTENTIALS FOR CHANGE.... 8.1. The NIC-2020 Global Landscape 8.2. The latest QDR-Challenge Assessment (QDR Strategic Environment) and its reflection in the NSS 2006. 8.3. Taxonomy of the Potentials for Change in the underlying Research Work . 9. SUMMARY REGARDING THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL ORDER. PART E: EARLY WARNING (EW) AND EARLY RESPONSE (ER). 1. WHAT ARE EARLY WARNING (EW) AND EARLY RESPONSE (ER) ALL ABOUT?. 1.1. Basic Deliberations. 1.2. Terminological Deliberations on EW and ER. 1.3. If everything is Crisis, nothing is Crisis: Un-mingling the terminological Confusion .. 1.4. Potentials for Change as Basis to arrive at Existential Challenges .. 1.5. Signals: Theoretical Considerations and practical Applications. 2. EARLY WARNING APPROACHES 2.1. Basic Deliberations. 2.2. An Overview OF Approaches 3. EARLY RESPONSE APPROACHES 3.1. Basic Deliberations 3.2. Intervention Approaches with preventive Components .... 3.3. Intervention Approaches with mediative Components 3.4. Intervention Approaches with Enforcement Components 3.5. Intervention Approaches for the Post-Conflict Period 4. PRE-EMPTION (PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES; ANTICIPATORY SELF-DEFENSE) 5. A CRITICAL APPRAISAL 5.1. From the theoretical Point of View 5.2. From the practical Point of View .... 6. REQUIREMENTS AND OPTIONS... 6.1. Theoretical Requirements . 6.2. Practical Requirements 6.3. Summarizing Deliberations PART F: SYNOPSIS.. 1. POINTS OF DEPARTURE.., 2. RESULTS. 2.1. Regarding the current International Order 2.2. Regarding the Actors within the Order . 2.3. Regarding the Challenges within the Order.. 2.4. Regarding Early Warning-Early Response 3. OUTLOOK.. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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