Unlikely Allies

Clement Guitton

doi:10.5771/9783828871892

Summary

The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the ‘Iran deal’, UNESCO, as well as the UN Human Rights Councils: issues like these convey the impression that the world order has changed. Without US leadership, it may seem that we have entered into what Ian Bremmer, an oft-quoted political pundit, calls a G0 world, a world without any leadership. Clement Guitton argues against this world view, as it disregards evidence of global leadership around the world on matters ranging from climate change, to trade, to security. Going a step further, Guitton claims that there is even evidence of a new form of leadership in international affairs: group leadership.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8288-4278-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8288-7189-2
Publisher: Tectum, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis Partial access Pages I - VI Download chapter (PDF)
1. Hegemony is unstable No access
2. If not the US, who? No access
3. A debated question No access
4. Coming in: group leadership No access
5. Related concepts No access
1. What is ‘group leadership’? No access
2. Concerns: incentives, game theory, and tragedy of the commons No access
3. Leadership No access
4. Advantages of group leadership theory No access
5. Wrapping up the theory No access
1. A bit of history: the US and climate change No access
2. Common But Differentiated Responsibilities No access
3. Annex I countries No access
4. Show me the money No access
5. Further groupings No access
6. The G8 and G20 No access
1. The BRICS No access
2. The Belt Road Initiative No access
3. The G20 No access
4. Other bodies? No access
1. Regional security: civil commotion No access
2. Security extended: food security No access
3. Intelligence No access
4. ‘Networked-security’ No access
5. Last remarks No access
1. Analytical tools: scenarios No access
2. Analytical tool: expertise No access
3. Emotions: political ties No access
4. Emotions: convictions No access
5. Emotions: compromises No access
6. Luck No access
7. Last remarks No access
1. Political consequences: a still stable world No access
2. Political consequences: more stable societies? No access
3. Political consequences: country trajectories No access
4. Consequences: technologies fostering group leadership No access
5. Consequences for businesses No access
6. The consequence of ignoring group leadership theory No access
7. The End No access
Acknowledgements No access Pages 173 - 174
Select Bibliography No access Pages 175 - 176

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