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Book Reviews

Book Review | Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics

CESRAN Int.23 August 201723 December 2017

Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4039-9589-6, 200 pp., $48.00) Published in Journal of Global...

Book Reviews

Book Review | The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

CESRAN Int.23 August 201723 December 2017

Michael Pillsbury The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015, ISBN: 978-1250081346, 352 pp., $11.55) Published in Journal of...

Africa

Nigeria’s Leadership Role Quests: The Race of the Crippled

CESRAN Int.23 August 201723 December 2017

Abstract There is no doubt that Nigerians conceive their country as the giant state in Africa, principally for the country’s human and material endowments. In the realm of foreign policy,...

Middle East Turkey and Neighbourhood

Turkey-KRG Energy Relations: Internal and External Dynamics

CESRAN Int.23 August 201723 December 2017

Abstract This paper aims at exploring internal and external dynamics of Turkey-KRG energy relations. It argues that Turkey’s fight against the PKK, its increasing energy need, the target of Turkish...

Africa

Attractions and Limitations of Nigeria’s Soft Power

CESRAN Int.23 August 201723 December 2017

Abstract Academic scholarship on Nigeria’s regional credentials and influence has focused on its hard power (economic and military capability). Despite the increasing relevance given to soft power in the 21st...

Genel

The End of War: Truth or Fiction?

CESRAN Int.15 August 201731 August 2017

Antony Ou in response to Dr Jean-Paul Gagnon’s article ‘The End of War?’ in Political Reflection, 2 (4): 30-33. In Volume 2 Issue 4 of Political Reflection, Dr Jean-Paul Gagnon...

Energy & Environment

Japan and the Issue of Nuclear Energy

CESRAN Int.15 August 201731 August 2017

Japan can expect a shortage of 8,500 MW this summer (2012). Japan’s electricity consumption was estimated in 2011 as being 859.7 billion kWh. As a resource poor country, however, Japan...

Energy & Environment

Progress, Democracy And Pollution: China’s Ecological Armageddon

CESRAN Int.15 August 201731 August 2017

In the broadest sense, the Idea of Progress is a belief that technological, scientific, socio-political advancement will eventually improve the quality of life, happiness, and well-being of one’s society. In...

Energy & Environment

Revisiting the Politics of the Earth

CESRAN Int.15 August 20179 September 2017

This year marks the fifteenth year since the first publication of John Dryzek’s Politics of the Earth (Oxford University Press, 1997; third edition forthcoming). Much has changed since then but...

Energy & Environment

Protecting Urban Environments: Role of Local Bodies in India

CESRAN Int.15 August 20179 September 2017

The need for protecting natural environments was realized by human beings in the earliest phases of human history as is evident from certain ancient texts. In India, for example, the...

Energy & Environment

Environmentalism for Democracy: Catalyst or Inhibitor?

CESRAN Int.15 August 20179 September 2017

Does environmentalism strengthen or weaken democracy? This question is worth pondering for two reasons. First, in contemporary democracies, the environment has always been a salient issue on the political agenda....

China and Neighbourhood Energy & Environment

The Politics of Environmental Protection Sustainable Development Implementation Gaps in China

CESRAN Int.14 August 201716 September 2017

By implementing the “Open Door Policy” since 1978, China has achieved tremendous economic growth and development. China has seen the largest human migration in history, leading to a rise in...

Energy & Environment

Environmentalism and the Enhancement of the Public Sphere

CESRAN Int.14 August 201716 September 2017

The argument that politics, or democracy more specifically, has been bolstered by the rise of environmental concerns from the 1960s onwards, is not novel herein. Although most commentators place the...

Energy & Environment

Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice Requires Democratic Food Systems

CESRAN Int.14 August 201720 September 2017

There is a strong sense of déjà vu in the late Northern summer of 2012. The worst droughts in living memory have devastated corn and soybean crops in the United...

Energy & Environment

Environment and Democracy

CESRAN Int.14 August 201720 September 2017

Freedom to choose is the basis for current democratic systems and here exists two uncertainties: 1) whose freedom? And 2) whose choice? If it were my freedom and my choice,...