Prioritization theory and defensive foreign policy : systemic vulnerabilities in international politics / Hanna Samir Kassab.
Kassab, Hanna Samir, 1984- author.
2017
JZ1242
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Title Prioritization theory and defensive foreign policy : systemic vulnerabilities in international politics / Hanna Samir Kassab.
Author Kassab, Hanna Samir, 1984- author.
ISBN 9783319480183 (electronic book)
3319480189 (electronic book)
9783319480176
3319480170
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48018-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-48018-3 doi
Call Number JZ1242
Dewey Decimal Classification 327
Summary This book studies systemic vulnerabilities and their impact on states and individual survival. The author theorizes that the structure of the international system is a product of the distribution of capabilities and vulnerabilities across states. States function or behave in terms of these systemic threats. The author examines a number of specific case-studies focusing on military, economic, environmental, political and cyber vulnerabilities, and how different states are impacted by them. Arguing that current attempts to securitize these vulnerabilities through defensive foreign policies are largely failing, the books makes the case for prioritizing economic development and human security.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Dedication ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Perceptions ofßThreat andßTheories ofßInternational Security; Research Design andßHypothesis; Overview; Hypothesis; Variables; Hypothesis Overview: Systems Creation Versus Systems Destruction; Chapters Outline; Scholarly Contributions andßGoals; Closing Remarks; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework; The International System inßWaltzian Realism: Capabilities-Centric; The International System Today: Vulnerabilities-Centric.

Vulnerability andßtheßImportance ofßReferent Objects: Human Beings, Not StatesSystemic Vulnerabilities andßTheir Origins: Defining Its Distribution AcrossßStates; Gaining andßLosing State Power Status: TheßImportance ofßStudying theßDistribution ofßVulnerabilities toßPeriods ofßSystemic Change; The Role ofßtheßHegemon: Systems-Creation andßSystems-Destruction; Interventions: TheßDuty ofßtheßHegemon; Conclusion: TheßInternational System inßtheßTwenty-First Century; Note; Works Cited; Chapter 3: State and Power Vulnerability; Sources ofßSystemic State Vulnerability.

Systemic Reach ofßState VulnerabilityPrescriptions: TheßBalance ofßPower Containment Foreign Policy; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Economic Vulnerability; Sources ofßSystemic Economic Vulnerability; Systemic Reach ofßEconomic Vulnerability; Russia: TheßLimits ofßRevisionism; United States Power: TheßEconomy asßArchitect andßAchilles Heel; China's Domestic Overstretch; Overview; Prescriptions: Economic Development andßGlobal Governance3; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Environmental andßHealth Vulnerabilities; Sources ofßEnvironmental/Health Systemic Vulnerability.

Systemic ReachPotential Prescriptions: Working WithinßDisembedded Liberalism; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Political Vulnerabilities andßTransnational Threats; Sources ofßSystemic Political Vulnerabilities; Systemic Reach ofßPolitical Vulnerability; Potential Prescriptions: Smarter Strategies; Silence is Golden Strategy andßtheßMushroom Effect: TheßLessons ofßSun Tzu; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7: Cyber-Vulnerability; Sources ofßSystemic Cyber-Vulnerabilities; Systemic Reach ofßCyber-Vulnerabilities; Potential Prescriptions: No Easy Task; Conclusions; Works Cited.

Chapter 8: Recommendations: Desecuritization, Prioritization andßDefensive Foreign PolicyForeign Policy inßtheßTwenty-First Century: TowardßaßDefensive Foreign Policy; Systemic Vulnerabilities: Decision-Makers andßThinking; Priortization ThroughßDesecuritization: Shifting Focus1; Desecuritization asßaßProcess ofßReprioritization; Ranked Order ofßPrioritization; Public Goods andßHuman Security: Systems Survival; Conclusion; Note; Works Cited; Chapter 9: Think Weak, Act Weak: AßLook into State Mentalities; Introduction; Mentalities andßtheßProcess ofßMutual Constitution: TheßFramework.

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