China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths, Kalantzakos Sophia

Автор: Igor Okunev
Название: Political Geography
ISBN: 2807616216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782807616219
Издательство: Peter Lang
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This textbook on political geography is devoted to a discipline concerned with the spatial dimensions of politics. This course is an introduction to the study of political science, international relations and area studies, providing a systemic approach to the spatial dimension of political processes at all levels. It covers their basic elements, including states, supranational unions, geopolitical systems, regions, borders, capitals, dependent, and internationally administered territories. Political geography develops fundamental theoretical approaches that give insight into the peculiarities of foreign and domestic policies. The ability to use spatial analysis techniques allows determining patterns and regularities of political phenomena both at the global and the regional and local levels.

Автор: William Blum
Название: Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
ISBN: 1350348198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350348196
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.

Автор: Gavin Francis J.
Название: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
ISBN: 0815737912 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815737919
Издательство: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES UK
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Exploring what we know--and don't know--about how nuclear weapons shape American grand strategy and international relations

A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

The world first confronted the power of nuclear weapons when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The global threat of these weapons deepened in the following decades as more advanced weapons, aggressive strategies, and new nuclear powers emerged. Ever since, countless books, reports, and articles--and even a new field of academic inquiry called "security studies"--have tried to explain the so-called nuclear revolution.

Francis J. Gavin argues that scholarly and popular understanding of many key issues about nuclear weapons is incomplete at best and wrong at worst. Among these important, misunderstood issues are: how nuclear deterrence works; whether nuclear coercion is effective; how and why the United States chose its nuclear strategies; why countries develop their own nuclear weapons or choose not to do so; and, most fundamentally, whether nuclear weapons make the world safer or more dangerous.

These and similar questions still matter because nuclear danger is returning as a genuine threat. Emerging technologies and shifting great-power rivalries seem to herald a new type of cold war just three decades after the end of the U.S.-Soviet conflict that was characterized by periodic prospects of global Armageddon.

Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy helps policymakers wrestle with the latest challenges. Written in a clear, accessible, and jargon-free manner, the book also offers insights for students, scholars, and others interested in both the history and future of nuclear danger.

Автор: Kalantzakos Sophia
Название: China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths
ISBN: 0190670932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190670931
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones and medical technologies to wind turbines, efficiency lighting, smart bombs, and submarines. While
they are not particularly "rare" in availability, they are difficult and expensive to mine. Yet, China has managed to gain control over an estimated 97 percent of the rare earth industry since the 1990s through cheap production, high export taxes, and artificial limitations of supply.

Rare earths, and China's monopoly over them, became international news after China "unofficially" curtailed exports to Japan, the United States, and Europe in 2010. This embargo followed a collision between Chinese and Japanese boats in the East China Sea, a locus of geopolitical and economic
tension between the two countries. Although the World Trade Organization forced China to scrap its restrictions, it still holds a stranglehold over these elements that are so critical to the economic and security interests of the United States and its allies.

In this book, Sophia Kalantzakos argues that the 2010 rare earth crisis signaled more than just a trade dispute. Rather, it raises questions about China's use of economic statecraft, and must be regarded as a part of the larger discourse of global power relations. Importantly, she also argues that
the failure of political actors in major industrial nations to enact comprehensive and effective policy solutions, or the scientific and business communities to devise sustainable rare earth production outside of China, points to future resource competition. Featuring a new foreword, the paperback
edition of China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths examines the impacts of growing worldwide resource competition and the complexities policymakers face as they develop strategies and responses in an increasingly globalized world.

Автор: Zeno Leoni
Название: New Cold War: US-China Relations in the 21st Century
ISBN: 1529227542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529227543
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: It moves beyond current the pro/against New Cold War thesis debate by using the Cold War as a lens rather than to apply a mechanical analogy.

Автор: Bolt, Paul J.; Cross, Sharyl N.
Название: China, Russia, and Twenty-First Century Global Geopolitics
ISBN: 0198719515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198719519
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This book examines the contemporary Chinese-Russian relationship and how the evolving Sino-Russian strategic partnership affects world order issues.

Автор: Campion Andrew Stephen
Название: The Geopolitics of Red Oil: Constructing the China Threat Through Energy Security
ISBN: 113895568X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138955684
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book fills an important gap in the emerging corpus of research on energy security by offering fresh insights into the rise of China as a global superpower and ways in which its rise is perceived to threaten western energy security.

Автор: Liao Tim F., Hara Kimie
Название: The China-Japan Border Dispute: Islands of Contention in Multidisciplinary Perspective
ISBN: 1472442997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472442994
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume offers a rare forum for a serious analysis of the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan. To understand the complexity of the dispute and to find peaceful solutions, we must reach beyond the confines of a single discipline and perspective. The volume deconstructs conflicting perspectives on the two sides of the dispute. Territorial disputes often become symbolic expressions of nationalistic rivalries, particularly as political claims for territories escalate and economic competition for resources between countries intensifies. Cutting through the political rhetoric on both sides of the controversy and bringing together a group of eight scholars from the disciplines of history, international relations, law, political science, and sociology, this book analyzes the relevant history, international law, multilateral relations, political agendas, and social and collective memory, to shed light on this difficult dispute. Taken together, the chapters of the book propose short-term, medium-term, and long-term peaceful solutions for going beyond the impasse of the current territorial dispute.

Автор: Campion, Andrew Stephen
Название: Geopolitics of red oil
ISBN: 1138351512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138351516
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book fills an important gap in the emerging corpus of research on energy security by offering fresh insights into the rise of China as a global superpower and ways in which its rise is perceived to threaten western energy security.

Автор: Lau, Lawrence J.
Название: China-u.s. trade war and their future economic relations
ISBN: 9882371124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789882371125
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The US and China are in fact each other`s most important partner in trade among many aspects. In this book, Lau looks through various economic statistics of the past few decades and shows us that while the real effects of the China-US trade war in 2018 are not negligible, they are relatively manageable for both nations.

Автор: Leszek Buszynski
Название: Geopolitics and the Western Pacific: China, Japan and the US
ISBN: 113847732X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138477322
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the development of China`s national ambitions under its current leader Xi Jinping and the dilemma they present for the United States and Japan. It emphasises the importance of geopolitics and highlights the hard choices faced by the United States as it seeks to protect its geopolitical position in the Western Pacific.

Автор: Tam Mai
Название: China Moves South: Human Rights Implications in the Paracel and Spratly Islands
ISBN: 1680534777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680534771
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Vietnam has claimed the Paracel and Spratly Island groups for hundreds of years. China’s invasion and capture of the Paracels from South Vietnam in 1974, and its ongoing occupation of the Spratlys, have created increasing opposition and anger not only among Vietnamese citizens but worldwide. This book insists that China’s illegal violation of Vietnamese sovereignty rights in the Paracels and Spratlys has included serious human rights violations and decelerated the process of human emancipation.Using both realist and critical theories in a comparative framework, China Moves South states that while realism may offer a reasonable approach to explaining China’s behavior, critical theory is a more appropriate lens to challenge China’s occupations. Employing critical theory and human rights law as methods of evaluation, this book insists that human rights and international law cannot sustain China’s continuing violations as defined by the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea in 1982.Additionally, China Moves South aims to provide government officials, international scholars, students, and other interested parties with a better understanding of Chinese’s illegal invasion and capture of the Paracels and Spratlys and, more importantly, to counsel urgent action to resist the Chinese occupation as China becomes more assertive in the vital waters of the South China Sea.