Important Events and Trends in the Contemporary International Arena Cover Image

Evenimente şi trend-uri semnificative pe scena internaţională contemporană
Important Events and Trends in the Contemporary International Arena

Author(s): Florin Diaconu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Governance, Recent History (1900 till today), Geopolitics
Published by: Institutul Diplomatic Român

Summary/Abstract: Preparing himself for a more ambitious work dealing with the definition(s), features, merits and limits of global governance, the author lists and presents in this study some of the events and trends which shape the contemporary international arena. All these are regarded as being inputs (or challenges) global governance has to properly cope with. The list of the events and trends the author explores (using mainly concepts and other intellectual tools of the Realist School in International Relations), paying a special attention to strategically significant issues of all sorts, is: 1. the evolutions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the more general context of GWOT; 2. the problems generated by failed – and failing – states; 3. political and military evolutions in Iran; 4. the quick consolidation of strategic military capabilities (and above all of the blue water navy) of China; and 5. continuity and change in the foreign policy of dominant world powers (the case of USA)

  • Issue Year: II/2009
  • Issue No: II
  • Page Range: 73-126
  • Page Count: 54
  • Language: Romanian