Xuewu Gu: Structural Power in the Global Age
Structural Power in the Global Age
Buch
- Why Modernity is Ending and Globality Prevails
- Springer International Publishing, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031154690
- Bestellnummer: 11624415
- Umfang: 188 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 23001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
- Gewicht: 295 g
- Maße: 235 x 155 mm
- Stärke: 11 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.10.2023
- Serie: Global Power Shift
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Klappentext
In light of recent global trends and crises, including the hasty withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, this book sheds new light on global power shifts in multiple areas of international relations between industrialized countries and emerging powers.This book argues that the global age is rapidly supplanting the modern age , and that modernity is paving the way for globality. The events that are taking place in the 21st century can no longer be effectively described, understood or explained by the concept of modernity which originated more than 500 years ago.
Further, this book challenges the academic and societal tendency to view international power-related phenomena on the basis of a dichotomy between hard and soft power. It assumes that another power source, independent of hard and soft power, does exist. Invisible, structure-manipulating, and effectively leveraged, it is precisely this third power that drives and shapes power phenomena in the global age more intensively than either hard or soft power.
This book seeks to verify its core hypotheses by applying them to a set of selected global phenomena, particularly from the domains of geopolitics (Belt & Road Initiative, Iran conflict, war in Afghanistan, and competition for a new world order) and technology (Global Navigation Satellite Systems, 5G infrastructure, race for international standards, and ICT rivalry). Rather than systematically examining each of these issues, it focuses on extracting theoretical meanings from these cases to demonstrate the logic of globality and structural power, partly from global-horizontal perspectives, partly through a structural-vertical lens.
Biografie
Xuewu Gu ist Politikwissenschaftler. Er studierte an den Universitäten Wuhan, Köln und Bonn, promovierte 1990 in Bonn und habilitierte 1997 in Freiburg. Gu lehrte in Freiburg, Trier und Bonn, bevor er 2002 den Lehrstuhl für die Politik Ostasiens an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum übernahm. Seit Oktober 2009 ist er Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Internationale Beziehungen und Direktor des Center for Global Studies an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Gu ist ein international gefragter Experte für Wirtschaft, Energie, Politik und Kultur Chinas.![Xuewu Gu: Structural Power in the Global Age, Buch](https://media1.jpc.de/image/w468/front/0/9783031154690.jpg)
Xuewu Gu
Structural Power in the Global Age
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