While pre-modern China’s relations with her Sinic neighbours have been described as a distinctive variant of the English School’s international society based on a shared Confucian culture and a China-centred tributary system, her relations with her nomadic neighbours, including the Hsiung-nu, Turks, Uighurs and Mongols, have often been characterized as purely power-political, Hobbesian and lacking any societal foundation.
This discussion was informed by the recent report of the UN peacebuilding review panel, on which Dr Olonisakin served, and the Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, which Dr Koops co-edited.
The second talk in the series, "Evolving Geographies of Power in Europe," delivered by the Modern European History Professor Paul Betts.
Scholars writing on migration in the European Union have called attention to the competing dynamics where Europe’s borders have been softened and simultaneously hardened: internal borders have been removed while external border controls now limit and monitor the entry of non-Europeans. This softening/hardening is evident in the contest between effective border management and the protection of human rights, above all the right to asylum.
Media and Politics in New Democracies focuses chiefly on new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, but chapters analysing new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia are also included. These new democracies represent a variety of what sociologists call 'glocalism': homogenisation and heterogenisation coexist, revealing hybrid models and multiple modernities. It is local culture that assigns meaning to global and regional influences.
Previous studies identified several domestic factors that may influence a country’s level of structural coup-proofing, i.e., counterbalancing strategies that shall prevent internal groups from seizing power via acoup d’état.
