In this paper, I aim to update and apply the idea and practices of "international society, " as d... more In this paper, I aim to update and apply the idea and practices of "international society, " as developed in the classic book written by Hedley Bull (1977). This, by assessing its continuing relevance in the first decades of the 21st century. For scholarly, practical, and policy reasons, I believe that Bull's masterpiece offers a relevant 'guide to the perplexed' to navigate world politics in our turbulent times. The two research questions to be addressed in the paper are: First, what are the challenges confronting the idea of the contemporary international society and its practices in the third decade of the 21st century? Second, what is the relevance of the idea of the international society and its practices nowadays? To answer the first question, I compile a list of significant contemporary challenges to the international society. In a nutshell, these include the rise of non-state actors and their challenge to the centrality of states; the impact of globalization and the preponderance of global issues (such as COVID-19 and climate change); and the lack of agreed global and shared norms, in both cultural and normative terms, which make international cooperation more difficult to obtain. Facing these four intertwined challenges, I argue that the idea and practices of international society can be updated to face the complex realities of our times. I sustain this argument by linking the concept and practices of the international society to the relevant mechanisms of global and regional governance, including the institutions of the international society. I refer to alternative world orders from the North and the South that reflect the resilience of the international society. Moreover, the opportunities for the flourishing of international society might include its potential decoupling from the Liberal International Order.
The Middle East is often considered a war zone, and it rarely comes to mind as a region that incl... more The Middle East is often considered a war zone, and it rarely comes to mind as a region that includes cases of peaceful change. Yet several examples of peaceful change can be identified at different levels of analysis: international, regional, interactive, and domestic. This chapter first critically examines the impact of the broader global/systemic level of analysis on the prospects for peaceful change. It then moves to examine the regional level of analysis, exploring the Kurdish question and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a central axis of change, the role of the Arab League, and the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The chapter then examines the interactive, bilateral level of analysis, exploring peaceful territorial change in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with reference to the successful Israeli-Egyptian negotiations of 1977–1979 and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process since 1993. Next, it explores the domestic level of analysis, focusing on domestic pol...
In this relatively slim but fascinating and comprehensive book, Dr. Guy Burton, Assistant Profess... more In this relatively slim but fascinating and comprehensive book, Dr. Guy Burton, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai, offers a succinct account of the foreign policies of India, Brazil, South Africa, China, and the Soviet Union (Russia after 1991) regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict from 1947 to the present. The author addresses two major questions: The first is specific, namely, the role of rising powers in general, and BRICS in particular, in relation to the Arab–Israeli conflict. The second is more general: What can we learn from studying the Arab–Israeli conflict through the prism of the status, hierarchy, and foreign policy orientations of these rising powers in the international system in general?
This article introduces an analytical framework to explain the coexistence of peaceful borders an... more This article introduces an analytical framework to explain the coexistence of peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows as evidenced by drug trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, weapons trafficking, and terrorism in the Americas, a region characterized by international peace, domestic peace, and regional integration. Under the assumption that peaceful relations among neighboring countries enable the incursion of transnational nonstate actors across their borders, the article poses this main question: Under which conditions might peaceful borders enable illicit transnational flows? There is much more variance in the incidence of these illicit transnational flows across borders than in the existence of international peace. The article examines two major variables: the degree of governance and institutional strength of the bordering states; and the prevalent socioeconomic conditions of the bordering states. En este artículo introducimos un marco analítico para explicar ...
Affiliations given in the article should be the affiliation at the time the research was conducte... more Affiliations given in the article should be the affiliation at the time the research was conducted. Please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/ writing.asp. 4. Funding: Was your research for this article funded by a funding agency? If so, please insert 'This work was supported by <insert the name of the funding agency in full>', followed by the grant number in square brackets '[grant number xxxx]'. 5. Supplemental data and underlying research materials: Do you wish to include the location of the underlying research materials (e.g. data, samples or models) for your article? If so, please insert this sentence before the reference section: 'The underlying research materials for this article can be accessed at <full link>/ description of location [author to complete]'. If your article includes supplemental data, the link will also be provided in this paragraph. See <http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/multimedia.asp> for further explanation of supplemental data and underlying research materials. 6. The CrossRef database (www.crossref.org/) has been used to validate the references. Changes resulting from mismatches are tracked in red font.
Este artículo representa un intento serio de considerar la cuestión de por qué la disciplina de r... more Este artículo representa un intento serio de considerar la cuestión de por qué la disciplina de relaciones internacionales no puede dar cuenta del concepto de “globalización” en el nivel teórico. El trabajo discute el déficit teórico para explicar la globalización planteando las siguientes preguntas: ¿Cómo debemos lidiar con la globalización desde una perspectiva de relaciones internacionales? ¿Por qué no tenemos teorías coherentes de relaciones internacionales sobre la globalización? ¿Qué debemos hacer al respecto? Nuestro argumento principal se enfoca en la necesidad de enfatizar los vínculos políticos que existen entre las relaciones internacionales y la globalización, encarnados en el papel de los Estados como agentes predominantes del cambio en los procesos de globalización.
Araucaria Revista Iberoamericana De Filosofia Politica Y Humanidades, 2008
Resumen En el presente artículo haré una breve reseña histórica de la evolución de las fronteras ... more Resumen En el presente artículo haré una breve reseña histórica de la evolución de las fronteras (inconclusas) del Estado de Israel entre 1948 y 2007. En primer lugar, presento un modelo teórico sobre el desarrollo y la evolución de las fronteras, tanto por la vía pacífi ca como por la bélica. En segundo lugar, hago una reseña histórica de la evolución de las fronteras de Israel desde su independencia hasta el presente. El artículo también hace referencia detallada a los problemas pendientes con respecto a las negociaciones entre Israel y los palestinos. Palabras clave: fronteras-Estado de Israel-cambios pacífi cos territoriales-confl icto árabe-israelí-problema palestino.
Page 1. Geopolitics and Territorial Issues: Relevance for South America1 ARIE M. KACOWICZ This pa... more Page 1. Geopolitics and Territorial Issues: Relevance for South America1 ARIE M. KACOWICZ This paper surveys the impact of geopolitical thinking as applied to issues of territory in Latin America, with special emphasis upon its Southern Cone. ...
... la integración transnacional, que incrementa las inversiones, y el apoyo latinoamericano almu... more ... la integración transnacional, que incrementa las inversiones, y el apoyo latinoamericano almultilateralismo. ... En segundo lugar, EEUU y otros actores claves de la escena internacional tie ... En la actualidad, el regionalismo traducido en los procesos de integración emer-ge ...
In this paper, I aim to update and apply the idea and practices of "international society, " as d... more In this paper, I aim to update and apply the idea and practices of "international society, " as developed in the classic book written by Hedley Bull (1977). This, by assessing its continuing relevance in the first decades of the 21st century. For scholarly, practical, and policy reasons, I believe that Bull's masterpiece offers a relevant 'guide to the perplexed' to navigate world politics in our turbulent times. The two research questions to be addressed in the paper are: First, what are the challenges confronting the idea of the contemporary international society and its practices in the third decade of the 21st century? Second, what is the relevance of the idea of the international society and its practices nowadays? To answer the first question, I compile a list of significant contemporary challenges to the international society. In a nutshell, these include the rise of non-state actors and their challenge to the centrality of states; the impact of globalization and the preponderance of global issues (such as COVID-19 and climate change); and the lack of agreed global and shared norms, in both cultural and normative terms, which make international cooperation more difficult to obtain. Facing these four intertwined challenges, I argue that the idea and practices of international society can be updated to face the complex realities of our times. I sustain this argument by linking the concept and practices of the international society to the relevant mechanisms of global and regional governance, including the institutions of the international society. I refer to alternative world orders from the North and the South that reflect the resilience of the international society. Moreover, the opportunities for the flourishing of international society might include its potential decoupling from the Liberal International Order.
The Middle East is often considered a war zone, and it rarely comes to mind as a region that incl... more The Middle East is often considered a war zone, and it rarely comes to mind as a region that includes cases of peaceful change. Yet several examples of peaceful change can be identified at different levels of analysis: international, regional, interactive, and domestic. This chapter first critically examines the impact of the broader global/systemic level of analysis on the prospects for peaceful change. It then moves to examine the regional level of analysis, exploring the Kurdish question and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a central axis of change, the role of the Arab League, and the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The chapter then examines the interactive, bilateral level of analysis, exploring peaceful territorial change in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with reference to the successful Israeli-Egyptian negotiations of 1977–1979 and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process since 1993. Next, it explores the domestic level of analysis, focusing on domestic pol...
In this relatively slim but fascinating and comprehensive book, Dr. Guy Burton, Assistant Profess... more In this relatively slim but fascinating and comprehensive book, Dr. Guy Burton, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai, offers a succinct account of the foreign policies of India, Brazil, South Africa, China, and the Soviet Union (Russia after 1991) regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict from 1947 to the present. The author addresses two major questions: The first is specific, namely, the role of rising powers in general, and BRICS in particular, in relation to the Arab–Israeli conflict. The second is more general: What can we learn from studying the Arab–Israeli conflict through the prism of the status, hierarchy, and foreign policy orientations of these rising powers in the international system in general?
This article introduces an analytical framework to explain the coexistence of peaceful borders an... more This article introduces an analytical framework to explain the coexistence of peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows as evidenced by drug trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, weapons trafficking, and terrorism in the Americas, a region characterized by international peace, domestic peace, and regional integration. Under the assumption that peaceful relations among neighboring countries enable the incursion of transnational nonstate actors across their borders, the article poses this main question: Under which conditions might peaceful borders enable illicit transnational flows? There is much more variance in the incidence of these illicit transnational flows across borders than in the existence of international peace. The article examines two major variables: the degree of governance and institutional strength of the bordering states; and the prevalent socioeconomic conditions of the bordering states. En este artículo introducimos un marco analítico para explicar ...
Affiliations given in the article should be the affiliation at the time the research was conducte... more Affiliations given in the article should be the affiliation at the time the research was conducted. Please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/ writing.asp. 4. Funding: Was your research for this article funded by a funding agency? If so, please insert 'This work was supported by <insert the name of the funding agency in full>', followed by the grant number in square brackets '[grant number xxxx]'. 5. Supplemental data and underlying research materials: Do you wish to include the location of the underlying research materials (e.g. data, samples or models) for your article? If so, please insert this sentence before the reference section: 'The underlying research materials for this article can be accessed at <full link>/ description of location [author to complete]'. If your article includes supplemental data, the link will also be provided in this paragraph. See <http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/multimedia.asp> for further explanation of supplemental data and underlying research materials. 6. The CrossRef database (www.crossref.org/) has been used to validate the references. Changes resulting from mismatches are tracked in red font.
Este artículo representa un intento serio de considerar la cuestión de por qué la disciplina de r... more Este artículo representa un intento serio de considerar la cuestión de por qué la disciplina de relaciones internacionales no puede dar cuenta del concepto de “globalización” en el nivel teórico. El trabajo discute el déficit teórico para explicar la globalización planteando las siguientes preguntas: ¿Cómo debemos lidiar con la globalización desde una perspectiva de relaciones internacionales? ¿Por qué no tenemos teorías coherentes de relaciones internacionales sobre la globalización? ¿Qué debemos hacer al respecto? Nuestro argumento principal se enfoca en la necesidad de enfatizar los vínculos políticos que existen entre las relaciones internacionales y la globalización, encarnados en el papel de los Estados como agentes predominantes del cambio en los procesos de globalización.
Araucaria Revista Iberoamericana De Filosofia Politica Y Humanidades, 2008
Resumen En el presente artículo haré una breve reseña histórica de la evolución de las fronteras ... more Resumen En el presente artículo haré una breve reseña histórica de la evolución de las fronteras (inconclusas) del Estado de Israel entre 1948 y 2007. En primer lugar, presento un modelo teórico sobre el desarrollo y la evolución de las fronteras, tanto por la vía pacífi ca como por la bélica. En segundo lugar, hago una reseña histórica de la evolución de las fronteras de Israel desde su independencia hasta el presente. El artículo también hace referencia detallada a los problemas pendientes con respecto a las negociaciones entre Israel y los palestinos. Palabras clave: fronteras-Estado de Israel-cambios pacífi cos territoriales-confl icto árabe-israelí-problema palestino.
Page 1. Geopolitics and Territorial Issues: Relevance for South America1 ARIE M. KACOWICZ This pa... more Page 1. Geopolitics and Territorial Issues: Relevance for South America1 ARIE M. KACOWICZ This paper surveys the impact of geopolitical thinking as applied to issues of territory in Latin America, with special emphasis upon its Southern Cone. ...
... la integración transnacional, que incrementa las inversiones, y el apoyo latinoamericano almu... more ... la integración transnacional, que incrementa las inversiones, y el apoyo latinoamericano almultilateralismo. ... En segundo lugar, EEUU y otros actores claves de la escena internacional tie ... En la actualidad, el regionalismo traducido en los procesos de integración emer-ge ...
Uploads
Papers by arie kacowicz