Competition in World Politics: Knowledge, Strategies and Institutions

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Competition in World Politics

Knowledge, Strategies and Institutions

Edited by: Daniela Russ and James Stafford
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

In the series Global Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457474

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About this book

The »return of great power competition« between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of »competition«? Which information and which rules enable states and other actors in world politics to »compete« with one another? Which competitive strategies do they pursue in the complex environment of modern world politics? This cutting-edge edited collection discusses these questions from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. It offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions of economics, technology, and prestige.

Author / Editor information

Daniela Russ, born 1987, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph, Canada. Trained as a historical sociologist in Berlin, New York, and Bielefeld, she is currently working on her first book, Working Nature: Steam, Power, and the Making of the Energy Economy (1830-1980). Her research interests lie in historical epistemology, energy history and the critical theory of nature.
James Stafford, born 1988, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Training Group »World Politics« at Bielefeld University. A historian of Ireland, Britain and Europe since 1750, his first book, The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order 1776-1848, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He completed his Ph.D. in History at Cambridge University in 2016, and worked as a Lecturer in Modern History at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, before coming to Bielefeld in 2017.

Reviews

Besprochen in:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21.09.2021, Alexander Gallus

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Daniela Russ and James Stafford Open Access Download PDF	7
Status and International Organizations
Status in Early Modern and Modern World Politics Competition or Conflict? Ramy Youssef Open Access Download PDF	35
Network Power Europe and Competition at the UN Human Rights Council Anatoly Boyashov Open Access Download PDF	61
Social Mobility in the Global Order Rising Powers and the Convertibility of Capitals Katja Freistein and Thomas Müller Open Access Download PDF	83
Knowledge, Ideology and Competition
The Civilizing Force of National Competition U.S. Nationalist Reasoning in the Mid-to-Late Nineteenth Century Johannes Nagel and Tobias Werron Open Access Download PDF	107
‘Free Trade’ and the Varieties of Eighteenth-Century State Competition James Stafford Open Access Download PDF	133
The Development of Neoliberal Measures of Competitiveness Dieter Plehwe Open Access Download PDF	155
Competing Powers Engineers, Energetic Productivism, and the End of Empires Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull Open Access Download PDF	183
Competition and Emergent Technologies
Diplomacy and Artificial Intelligence in Global Political Competition Didzis Kļaviņš Open Access Download PDF	213
Small, Smart, Powerful? Small States and the Competition for Cybertech Superiority in the Digital Age Madeleine Myatt Open Access Download PDF	233
Between Strategic Autonomy and International Norm-setting The EU’s Emergent “Cyber-Sanctions” Regime Yuliya Miadzvetskaya Open Access Download PDF	261
Afterword
Competition During Covid-19 Heidi Tworek Open Access Download PDF	289
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	301

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 306
Keywords: Technology; Trade; Nationalism; Rankings; Politics; Society; Globalization; Political Sociology; International Relations; Global History; Sociology

eBook

Published: June 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839457474