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Freddy and Bijukumar present a rather nuanced and yet incisive analysis on the emerging dynamics of international conflicts. They present especially novel perspectives on conflicts unfolding between emerging powers and great powers that will eventually determine the nature of great power competition in the twenty-first century. - Prof Swaran Singh, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi A seminal work on Great-Power Conflicts by Freddy and Kumar brings a fresh and Global South perspective to comprehend the emerging great power conflicts. The book demonstrates how these conflicts not only alter the international system but also threaten peaceful development of Global South. Theoretically sound, the book puts forward a very convincing proposition that emerging great-power conflicts are rather becoming new norm and thereby these “asymmetrical” conflicts not only alter the regional structure but also trigger great- power conflicts. -Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian studies, Delhi University The rise and fall of states in the international system has been an interesting problem which has received attention amongst scholars, policy makers, journalists, politicians and leaders of states. The dramatic rise of China and India in particular, in terms of their economy and military capabilities, has brought about a paradigm shift in terms of thinking about world politics that is coupled with the decline of the US’ hegemonic status. This volume explores potential futures when it comes to emerging power - great power competition and what may push us towards more pessimistic or optimistic scenarios. Haans J Freddy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. V. Bijukumar is Professor and Chair, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

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This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different representations of success and failure of the protracted peace process, as well as its associated policies, narratives, norms and practices, to analyze its impact on identity and its contribution to the maintenance and/or transformation of the cultural component of violence. On the one hand, drawing from an interdisciplinary approach comprising International Relations (IR), History and Social Psychology, this book proposes an analytical framework for assessing the specificities of the construction of identities in protracted conflicts. It identifies dehumanization and practices of reconciliation in ongoing conflicts – what is called peace-less reconciliation – as the main elements influencing processes of othering and violence in this kind of conflicts. On the other hand, the book offers an empirical historical analysis on how the protracted peace process has impacted identity building and representations made of the ‘other’ in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the end of the 19th century to the present day.

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Identity (Psychology) --- Identity politics --- Peace-building --- Politics and International Studies. --- Peace.

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The concept of Hybrid Warfare has gained prominence in recent decades. It is a novel terminology, but the concept is detectable since antiquity: Ancient Chinese, Ancient Greeks and the Jews of Exodus were all well familiar, so well to have let us know. Similarly, bioagents have been used malevolently since always. What is novel is that these two, in the present context, are not only interfacing smoothly, but in an enhanced context: The Hybrid Warfare, which has now enriched its portfolio, from actions of provocation, insurgency, economic warfare, special operations, proxy warfare and social destabilization to the Residual domain, the cyberspace, while the conventional, 3D space expands. Now the Space and the Deep are included in the topography of the friction zone. In this, the bio- factor becomes not only relevant but also an amplifier: using the technology malevolently, all the advances made to combat disease may be used to cause, further, or perplex and complicate disease. Improved or totally novel or even alien germs may replace explosives in bombs, shells or suicidal /kamimaze drones and taint bullets and fragments. Microrobots may deliver cancer cells to targeted individuals to foster cancer, or specific supergerms for an infection to rage unchallenged. And what happens if the mechanism of these cancers and infections is intentionally provided with an Abort signal? Global extortions would become probable, not just possible. Far from Science Fiction, this dystopia becomes more probable by the day. The Artificial Intelligence simply makes it easier to occur. Technology allows manipulation and intervention in levels and extends only imagined in the Past, but the application of these capabilities is clearly of dual use, with the destructive potential leveraged by the complexity of the social and state structure. Within this book, we explore the “How” (occasionally the “What” also) in some of these instances. From cyber terrorists to aggressive bioindustrialists and “democratized” ballistic and cruise missile technology, it could be coined as "The Book of Modern Mayhem”.

Security systems. --- Political science. --- Medical sciences. --- Security Science and Technology. --- Politics and International Studies. --- Health Sciences.

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The overarching aim of the book is to provide the first comprehensive account of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy and its dissemination through digital diplomacy. In contrast to other scholarly studies of digital diplomacy that tend to view it as a technological and apolitical device for online diplomatic communication, this book examines the specific political dynamics of digital diplomacy. It posits that digital diplomacy is a highly political practice and form of communication. The book offers an in-depth examination of the interdependent relationship between digital diplomacy and feminist foreign policy, with an empirical focus on Sweden. Additionally, it introduces a novel theoretical framework to analyse the political characteristics of digital diplomacy, emphasising the oscillation between antagonism and agonism at the intersection of feminist foreign policy and digital diplomacy. In sum, the book provides new theoretical and empirical knowledge of why, how, and in what ways power-political dynamics are produced, sustained, and transformed within the contexts of feminist foreign policy and digital diplomacy. While the focus centres on Sweden, the authors contend that their novel approach to examining the political dynamics of digital diplomacy and feminist foreign policy applies to other country case studies as well. This is an open access book. Karin Aggestam is Professor in Political Science at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University Annika Bergman Rosamond is Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Gender at the University of Edinburgh Elsa Hedling is Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University She is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm. .

International relations. --- Political science. --- Diplomacy. --- Foreign Policy. --- International Relations. --- Politics and International Studies. --- Political Science.

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Freddy and Bijukumar present a rather nuanced and yet incisive analysis on the emerging dynamics of international conflicts. They present especially novel perspectives on conflicts unfolding between emerging powers and great powers that will eventually determine the nature of great power competition in the twenty-first century. - Prof Swaran Singh, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi A seminal work on Great-Power Conflicts by Freddy and Kumar brings a fresh and Global South perspective to comprehend the emerging great power conflicts. The book demonstrates how these conflicts not only alter the international system but also threaten peaceful development of Global South. Theoretically sound, the book puts forward a very convincing proposition that emerging great-power conflicts are rather becoming new norm and thereby these “asymmetrical” conflicts not only alter the regional structure but also trigger great- power conflicts. -Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian studies, Delhi University The rise and fall of states in the international system has been an interesting problem which has received attention amongst scholars, policy makers, journalists, politicians and leaders of states. The dramatic rise of China and India in particular, in terms of their economy and military capabilities, has brought about a paradigm shift in terms of thinking about world politics that is coupled with the decline of the US’ hegemonic status. This volume explores potential futures when it comes to emerging power - great power competition and what may push us towards more pessimistic or optimistic scenarios. Haans J Freddy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. V. Bijukumar is Professor and Chair, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Politics --- politiek --- Political science. --- Politics and International Studies. --- International relations. --- World politics.