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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Preface -- Also by Fred Aja Agwu -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: The Paradox of a Globalized, Populist and Nationalist World -- 1.1 The National Interest in Globalization, Populism and Nationalism -- 1.2 Race/Nationalism and the Supremacy of America's National Interest -- 1.3 Nationalism and Populism as a Protectionist Theory -- 1.4 Nationalism Betrayed -- 1.5 The Fear of Globalization -- 1.6 Populism and Nationalism Occur When Global Dysfunction Betrays Soft Power -- 1.7 The Demonization of Migration -- References |
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2 Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the Making of Brexit -- 2.1 UK and Undermining the European Union Ideal -- 2.2 The Brexit Debacle -- 2.3 The Danger of Brexit -- 2.4 The Politics of a No-Deal Brexit -- 2.5 Special Place in Hell for Brexiteers -- Reference -- 3 Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the Making of Trumpism -- 3.1 The Emergence of Trumpism -- 3.2 A Trumpian Apology: Any Rhyme or Reason? -- 3.3 Convergence and Global Sway of Populism and Nationalism -- 3.4 Populism, Nationalism and President Trump's Trade War -- 3.5 Trump's Weaponization of Trade -- References |
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4 Trumpism Explodes the Myth of America as City on the Hill -- 4.1 Exceptionalism and America as City on the Hill -- 4.2 Has Trumpism Trumped America's Exceptionalism? -- 4.3 Trumpism, Electoral College, Victory, Impeachment and Acquittal -- 4.4 Trumpism, Minorities and Alternative Facts -- 4.5 Trumpism as a Cuban-Americanlash -- 4.6 Nationalism and Monarchical Conservatism in Trumpism's Rise of the ISIS -- 4.7 Trumpism as a Contradiction -- References -- 5 Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in Regional and New Geopolitical Landscapes -- 5.1 Preface to Regional Hegemony |
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5.2 A Gung-Ho Trump -- 5.3 Trump Kinetic Policy Against Allies, Frenemies and Rivals -- 5.4 A US/Turkey Snafu Too Far -- 5.5 China's BRI -- 5.6 Critique of Strategic BRI and China's Response -- 5.7 President Trump's Threat to the Dollar -- 5.8 'The Dire Strait of Hormuz' -- References -- 6 Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in Sino-Africa Relations -- 6.1 The Debt Trap -- 6.2 Pompeo and Tillerson Alarmed and 'Going in All Guns Blazing' -- 6.3 Fear of the Political Culture of Authoritarian Politics -- 6.4 China's Post-Modernism Apes "Francafrique", Not 'Father Christmas' |
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6.5 China's Subversion of Democracy and Good Governance -- 6.6 The Question of the Sino-Nigeria Currency Swap -- References -- 7 Globalization, Populism, Nationalism and the African Continental Free Trade Area -- 7.1 Nigeria's Niamey Endorsement of the AfCFTA in Protectionism -- 7.2 AfCFTA and the Absence of a Free Movement Regime -- 7.3 AfCFTA: The Failure of Nigeria's Protectionism -- 7.4 Populism and Epistemic Challenges in Foreign Policy -- 7.5 Weak Epistemic Link: When the Town Influences the Gown -- 7.6 Nigerian/South African Populism as Threat to Continental Coalescence -- References |
| Summary |
This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism. Recent developments in global affairs are challenging assumptions and the basis upon which international relations, as a broad field of specialization, and foreign policy analysis, as a sub-field, rests. In a world that is changing in fundamental and irreversible ways, this book intervenes to enable an improved sense of understanding of these developments and what they mean for people-people, state-state, continent-continent, and global relations, moving forward. The author shows anti-globalization and the growth of nationalism and populism have been particularly necessitated by the failures of liberalism and America's abdication from the world. With reference to Brexit, the pandemic, the US 2020 elections and consequent shifts in power, with a focus on their respective impacts on Africa, and Africa-Sino relations particularly, and developing countries, more broadly, this book situates these discussions within a global context. It effectively illustrates the insufficiency of the West's soft power, especially as it is foisted or supposedly imposed on the rest of the world without regard to the demands of cultural relativity. Relevant to postgraduate students, researchers, and policymakers, this is must-read within the fields of international relations and political economy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 16, 2021) |
| Subject |
International relations -- History -- 21st century
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Geopolitics.
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Globalization.
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geopolitics.
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globalism.
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Geopolitics
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Globalization
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International relations
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811633720 |
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981163372X |
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