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Power Vacuums and Global Politics: Areas of State and Non-state Competition in Multipolarity

Power Vacuums and Global Politics: Areas of State and Non-state Competition in Multipolarity

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Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Pol

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1032519193
ISBN13: 9781032519197
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 23 2023
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework that explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system.

A power vacuum is the fundamental absence of legitimate state authority over a geographic territory, and it is a space free of governance. With no state authority governing a geographical region, opportunistic states and organized criminal and terrorist networks may attempt to control that space. Using a variety of historical examples and centering his analysis on ungoverned spaces rather than great powers, Kassab uncovers neglected areas of great power competition. Part 1 discusses state actors: specifically, the strategic space of the Arctic, the Middle East and Africa, and Afghanistan and Central Asia. Part 2 examines non-state actors, such as terrorist networks and organized criminal networks, and the formulation of paramilitaries.

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