|9780822968436|Power, Conflict, and Cooperation from Aviation to AI|Revolutionary technologies—from nuclear weapons to biotechnology and artificial intelligence—have transformed not only economies but also the foundations of global politics. This book offers the first systematic and comparative study of how such disruptive innovations generate international conflict and cooperation. Drawing on over two decades of research and teaching in political economy and international security, Michael E. Smith develops a new analytical framework for understanding the global governance of technological change. Through detailed case studies and interviews with US and EU policymakers, he examines how major technologies provoke disputes over power, security, ethics, and…

|9780822949268|Power, Conflict, and Cooperation from Aviation to AI|Revolutionary technologies—from nuclear weapons to biotechnology and artificial intelligence—have transformed not only economies but also the foundations of global politics. This book offers the first systematic and comparative study of how such disruptive innovations generate international conflict and cooperation. Drawing on over two decades of research and teaching in political economy and international security, Michael E. Smith develops a new analytical framework for understanding the global governance of technological change. Through detailed case studies and interviews with US and EU policymakers, he examines how major technologies provoke disputes over power, security, ethics, and…

|9780822968245|Reconfiguring Perspectives on Regionalism|New Asian Connectivities brings together scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, business, and law to reimagine the nuances of regional interconnectivity in Asia and to challenge notions of boundaries and boundedness in reconceptualizing the field of Asian studies. Focusing on connections that animate Asian regionalism and the academic study of Asia, this edited volume operates in three overlapping interdisciplinary areas: the construction of cultural positionality; the interdependence of governance, policy, and legislation; and the enmeshment of regionalized political economies amid increasingly decentralized global power. These contributions foreground analyses of cultural production, economic flows, and social mobility that…

|9780822949152|Reconfiguring Perspectives on Regionalism|New Asian Connectivities brings together scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, business, and law to reimagine the nuances of regional interconnectivity in Asia and to challenge notions of boundaries and boundedness in reconceptualizing the field of Asian studies. Focusing on connections that animate Asian regionalism and the academic study of Asia, this edited volume operates in three overlapping interdisciplinary areas: the construction of cultural positionality; the interdependence of governance, policy, and legislation; and the enmeshment of regionalized political economies amid increasingly decentralized global power. These contributions foreground analyses of cultural production, economic flows, and social mobility that…

|9780822947448|The Legacy of Race, Neo-Colonialism, and Democracy Promotion|Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United States as an empire. Scholars have analyzed how the US government has worked through international financial institutions, its Central Intelligence Agency, and outright warfare to achieve its will. In this book, Timothy M. Gill spotlights how the US government also worked through democracy promotion to undermine governments abroad, including in Venezuela. President Hugo Chávez, who ruled from 1999 until his death in 2013, was among the democratically elected…