The Rise Of The Civilizational State
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The Rise Of The Civilizational State
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Author : Christopher Coker
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-03-05
The Rise Of The Civilizational State written by Christopher Coker and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with Political Science categories.
In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics – from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In this pioneering book, the renowned political philosopher Christopher Coker looks in depth at two countries that now claim this title: Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. He also discusses the Islamic caliphate, a virtual and aspirational civilizational state that is unlikely to fade despite the recent setbacks suffered by ISIS. The civilizational state, he contends, is an idea whose time has come. For, while civilizations themselves may not clash, civilizational states appear to be set on challenging the rules of the international order that the West takes for granted. China seems anxious to revise them, Russia to break them, while Islamists would like to throw away the rule book altogether. Coker argues that, when seen in the round, these challenges could be enough to give birth to a new post-liberal international order.
The China Wave
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Author : Wei-Wei Zhang
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2012
The China Wave written by Wei-Wei Zhang and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
This Chinese best-seller is a geopolitical book for our times. It provides an original, comprehensive & engrossing study on the rise of China & its effective yet controversial model of development, & has become a centrepiece of an unfolding debate within China on the nature & future of the world's most populous nation & its possible global impact.
The China Wave
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Author : Weiwei Zhang
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2012-03-21
The China Wave written by Weiwei Zhang and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-21 with Political Science categories.
This is a best-seller in China and a geopolitical book for our times. As a leading thinker from China, Zhang Weiwei provides an original, comprehensive and engrossing study on the rise of China and its effective yet controversial model of development, and the book has become a centerpiece of an unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the world's most populous nation and its possible global impact. China's rise, according to Zhang, is not the rise of an ordinary country, but the rise of a different type of country, a country sui generis, a civilizational state, a new model of development and a new political discourse which indeed questions many of the Western assumptions about democracy, good governance and human rights. The book is as analytical as it is provocative, and should be required reading for everyone concerned with the rise of China and its global implications. Contents:Not Misreading Oneself:A Fast-Changing WorldThe Unusual AscentSurpassing JapanThe GDP ParadoxTo the TopChina's 1+1 > 2:The “Quasi-Developed Countries” within ChinaThe Size of China's Middle ClassThe “Emerging Economies” within ChinaWhy China's 1 + 1 > 2?The Rise of a Civilizational State:China's Rocky Path towards a Nation-StateThe Rise of a Civilizational StateA New PerspectiveLooking at China AfreshThe Rise of a Development Model:Reflections after the CrisesThe China Model May Win OutShaping the Chinese StandardsThe Rise of a New Political Discourse:Political Reform, the Chinese WayDebating Human RightsThe Rise of a New Political DiscourseThe End of the End of History:The Western Model: from India to Eastern EuropeThe Western Model: East Asia and BeyondDebating with Fukuyama: The End of the End of History Readership: Researchers, policy-makers, general readers interested in the rise of China, its model of development and its global impact. Keywords:Civilizational State;Rise of China;Development Model;New Political Discourse;Global Impact;Nation State;National Structure;Democracy;Good Governance;Modern StateKey Features:It's a best-seller in China with more than half–million copies sold and is a centerpiece of unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the countryIt provides an original, comprehensive and engrossing study of China's rise, its model of development and political discourseIts main arguments are widely shared by China's political elite today and perhaps tomorrowReviews:“One of the most popular books on sale in China at the moment is on the rise of a civilizational state, by Zhang Weiwei. Mr Zhang argues that China is unique as ‘the world's only amalgam of an ancient civilization and a huge modern state’, and is ‘increasingly returning to its own roots for inspiration, and producing its own norms and standards’.”The Economist: Nothing New under Heaven “As China feels its own economic and political strength in the world, it is natural that its own intellectuals should want to explain China's progress theoretically, first to themselves, then to the world. Prof. Zhang's book has been well regarded within China, making a major contribution to the internal debate on China's future. By translating his book into English, Prof. Zhang adds to the world's understanding of China's development and what this means for the world. China's astonishing re-emergence on the global stage has thrown into confusion traditional western-dominated theories of modernization, in Prof. Zhang's own words, putting ‘an end to the End of Civilization’.”George Yeo Former Foreign Minister of Singapore “The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State is the geopolitical book for our times. It frames the rise of China, which is the big story of the 21st Century, with a bold and novel theory that challenges conventional wisdom of national structure, democracy, and what constitutes good governance. At a time when American exceptionalism is on the wane, are we ready for Chinese exceptionalism on the rise? Zhang Weiwei, whose energetic vision resonates well among Chinese future leaders, makes a compelling case. His arguments and insights, as analytical and passionate as they are confrontational and controversial, should be required reading for everyone concerned about China. Ignore this book and you will not understand how China's leaders think.”Robert Lawrence Kuhn Author, How China's Leaders Think “The rise of China is the biggest story of our time and the best story-tellers of our time come from the West. This has led to a huge global paradox where the best story-tellers have failed to understand the biggest story of our time. This is why the world urgently needs good Chinese story-tellers to provide the Chinese perspective. Prof. Zhang has done the world a huge favor by coming out with this timely and interesting new perspective on the rise of China.”Kishore Mahbubani Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Author, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East One of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in 2010 and 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine “Few scholars from the mainland are as urbane, connected and savvy as Zhang Weiwei … The book's central idea is that China is different from other nation states. There is some merit to this. Unlike the politically diffuse civilisations of Europe, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, China has managed to establish political unity over most of its territory.”South China Morning Post “Mr Xi [Jinping] is also said to have read The China Wave by Zhang Weiwei, a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai and the Geneva School of Public Diplomacy and International Relations. That book offers a vigorous summary of the 'China model' theory, which holds that China can successfully meld authoritarian government with a capitalist-style economy. (Section titles include 'The China Model May Win Out' and 'Political Reform, the Chinese Way'). It depicts China's rise as the rise of a civilization — something bigger than a nation.”Didi Kirsten Tatlow The New York Times: The Risks of Taking China's Helm “It provides analytical and original interpretations of the Chinese model of economic and political development. Thus, the interesting and easy way in which the book deals with the topic allows anyone interested in the subject to gain a wider and deeper understanding of the Chinese world and its possible global impact on future generations.”Recent Publications “It presents a wealth of solid knowledge and sharp insights on the evolution, patterns and practices of China's international outlook. Perhaps the greatest strength is the ability to draw historically grounded and unusually erudite analyses that will be welcomed by students, scholars and policymakers alike. It will benefit immensely those interested in the history, intellectual traditions and strategic culture of China's international interactions. Zhang's endeavours will also be invaluable for the purposes of teaching and theorizing the ongoing transformations in global life as a result of China's increasing centrality in the patterns and practices of world affairs.”Europe-Asia Studies
The China Horizon
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Author : Weiwei Zhang
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2016-05-10
The China Horizon written by Weiwei Zhang and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-10 with Political Science categories.
This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's "China Trilogy", which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a centerpiece of the unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the country and how it compares with the West. It addresses a hugely important issue of the day, i.e., in what way China is overtaking or may overtake the United States as the world's preeminent power. The author provides an original and thought-provoking study on how China has managed, through its own development model, to catch up and even surpass, to various extents, the United States, in terms of gross GDP, net household assets and social protection. The book elaborates on how China has engaged itself in reshaping its institutions to ensure its smooth rise, drawing on the strengths of its own traditions, socialist legacies and elements from the West. It analyzes the weakness of the Western political institutions and discusses how China has developed its own institutional edge over the West. The author argues that as a civilizational state, China has evolved a logic of its own for development and its own political discourse which questions seriously many Western assumptions about democracy, good governance and universal values. The book recaptures the essence of China's past glory and discusses the horizon of the Chinese dream as well as how China should meet the various challenges ahead. It offers a unique and original perspective on the future of this coming superpower. Like The China Wave, this book is both discerning and provocative, and serves as a required reading for everyone concerned with the rise of China and its global implications. Contents:From Catching-Up to SurpassingFrom Myth to TruthBeyond the Western InstitutionsA New Political DiscourseGlory and Dream of a Civilizational StateConclusion: The Logic of a Civilizational State Readership: Researchers, policy-makers, general readers interested in the rise of China, its model of development and its global impact.
Sinicization And The Rise Of China
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Author : Peter J. Katzenstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Sinicization And The Rise Of China written by Peter J. Katzenstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Political Science categories.
China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday politics and common in policy and academic writings. This book’s emphasis on Sinicization as a specific instance of civilizational processes counters political and intellectual shortcuts and corrects the mistakes to which they often lead. Sinicization illustrates that like other civilizations China has always been open to variegated social and political processes that have brought together many different kinds of peoples adhering to very different kinds of practices. This book tries to avoid the reifications and celebrations that mark much of the contemporary public debate about China’s rise. It highlights instead complex processes and political practices bridging East and West that avoid easy shortcuts. The analytical perspectives of this book are laid out in Katzenstein’s opening and concluding chapters. They are explored in six outstanding case studies, written by widely known authors, which over questions of security, political economy and culture. Featuring an exceptional line-up and representing a diversity of theoretical views within one integrative perspective, this work will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, sociology and political science. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Civilization
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Author : Niall Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-03-03
Civilization written by Niall Ferguson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with History categories.
DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications" that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world - from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
The Clash Of Civilizations And The Remaking Of World Order
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Author : Samuel P. Huntington
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-05-31
The Clash Of Civilizations And The Remaking Of World Order written by Samuel P. Huntington and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with Political Science categories.
The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in today’s geopolitical climate—with a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication in 1996, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations pose the greatest threat to world peace, but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia have changed global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify inter-civilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. In his incisive analysis, Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, multi-civilizational world.
Platforms And Cultural Production
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Author : Thomas Poell
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-10-14
Platforms And Cultural Production written by Thomas Poell and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-14 with Social Science categories.
The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy explore both the processes and the implications of platformization across the cultural industries, identifying key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labor, creativity, and democracy. The authors foreground three particular industries – news, gaming, and social media creation – and also draw upon examples from music, advertising, and more. Diverse in its geographic scope, Platforms and Cultural Production builds on the latest research and accounts from across North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China to reveal crucial differences and surprising parallels in the trajectories of platformization across the globe. Offering a novel conceptual framework grounded in illuminating case studies, this book is essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are transforming – and what the stakes are for understanding platform power.
States Civilisations And The Reset Of World Order
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Author : Richard Higgott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-16
States Civilisations And The Reset Of World Order written by Richard Higgott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-16 with Political Science categories.
This book evaluates the current state of world (dis)order at a time of growing populism, nationalism and pandemic panic. It distils the implications of the ‘civilisational state’ for world order. The retreat of US leadership is mirrored by the decline of both the material and normative liberal multilateral infrastructure it supported. Meanwhile, the rise of China as a challenger is accompanied in political, economic and cultural terms by other emerging powers no longer bound to the norms of 20th century world affairs, notably Turkey, India, China and Russia. By emphasising a cultural lens of analysis alongside robust political and economic analysis, the author offers a prescriptive agenda for the coming post-pandemic age that recognises the changing powers of civilisational, state and hybrid non-state actors. Without overestimating their probabilities, he outlines prospects and preconditions for effective inter-civilisational dialogue and proposes a series of minimal conditions for a multilateral ‘reset’. This book will appeal to public and private decision-makers, the media, the educated lay public and civil society actors interested in the rise of civilisational politics and its possible consequences for world affairs. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy, geopolitics, strategic studies, foreign policy and social psychology.
Trade And Civilisation In The Indian Ocean
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Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-03-07
Trade And Civilisation In The Indian Ocean written by K. N. Chaudhuri and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-03-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development.