This issue will explore shifting global geopolitical relationships among major powers and implications for world order, governance and existential global security challenges including arms control/proliferation, climate change, terrorism, global health, regional conflicts (Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel-Hamas) and more.
The global geopolitical configuration is undergoing full-scale transition from the U.S.-led unipolar system of the 1990s in which the liberal international order established after WWII provided the rules and norms for global governance to a multipolar power configuration among competing Western and non-Western powers with differing values, preferences and vision for world order. Authors will apply theories, concepts and approaches in international relations from Western and non-Western or different national/cultural traditions to analyze and explain the role of major powers in managing critical transnational security challenges and regional conflicts. Article contributions will include assessing the evolution of instruments of war and statecraft, technology and diplomacy, identifying risks for regional conflicts escalating into wider regional or world wars and suggesting mechanisms for managing major power conflict in addressing critical transnational global security challenges.
The issue will feature contributions of academic specialists in geopolitics throughout the world offering a rich diversity of perspectives on shifting major power dynamics in the contemporary and emerging global order. The collection will provide a resource for academics and the international policy community offering explanations and analysis of interests, strategic vision and narratives among major global powers (United States, Europe (European Union/NATO), Russia, China, India, Turkey, Nations of the Global South and others) on the sources of current wars and defining the impact of these clashes for challenging the liberal rules based international order and alternatives. Contributors will be encouraged to define conclusions of research for national and global policy. Finally, authors will explore the potential consequences of relationships among major powers in the contemporary and emerging global systemic major power security configuration with respect to war and conflict and other potential existential transnational threats to world security and peace.
Keywords:
Geopolitical transition, Power configuration, Global governance, Strategic diplomacy, Conflict management
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
This issue will explore shifting global geopolitical relationships among major powers and implications for world order, governance and existential global security challenges including arms control/proliferation, climate change, terrorism, global health, regional conflicts (Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel-Hamas) and more.
The global geopolitical configuration is undergoing full-scale transition from the U.S.-led unipolar system of the 1990s in which the liberal international order established after WWII provided the rules and norms for global governance to a multipolar power configuration among competing Western and non-Western powers with differing values, preferences and vision for world order. Authors will apply theories, concepts and approaches in international relations from Western and non-Western or different national/cultural traditions to analyze and explain the role of major powers in managing critical transnational security challenges and regional conflicts. Article contributions will include assessing the evolution of instruments of war and statecraft, technology and diplomacy, identifying risks for regional conflicts escalating into wider regional or world wars and suggesting mechanisms for managing major power conflict in addressing critical transnational global security challenges.
The issue will feature contributions of academic specialists in geopolitics throughout the world offering a rich diversity of perspectives on shifting major power dynamics in the contemporary and emerging global order. The collection will provide a resource for academics and the international policy community offering explanations and analysis of interests, strategic vision and narratives among major global powers (United States, Europe (European Union/NATO), Russia, China, India, Turkey, Nations of the Global South and others) on the sources of current wars and defining the impact of these clashes for challenging the liberal rules based international order and alternatives. Contributors will be encouraged to define conclusions of research for national and global policy. Finally, authors will explore the potential consequences of relationships among major powers in the contemporary and emerging global systemic major power security configuration with respect to war and conflict and other potential existential transnational threats to world security and peace.
Keywords:
Geopolitical transition, Power configuration, Global governance, Strategic diplomacy, Conflict management
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.