Pak Nung Wong

Logic of the Powers (eBook, ePUB)

Towards an Impact-driven Practice of Futurist Statecraft

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores a novel Christian post-colonial approach to global affairs. It examines the existing 'sociology of the powers' theoretical scheme, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism, the method and practice of prophetic witnessing, to elaborate a new Christian approach to statecraft and futurology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429558498
• Artikelnr.: 62002402

Autorenporträt

Pak Nung Wong teaches politics and international relations at the University of Bath, UK. His recent publications include Destined Statecraft: Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts (2018), Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia: A Treatise of Christian Statecraft (2016) and Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State-Building and the Chinese in the Philippines (2013). He is Editor-in-Chief of Bandung: Journal of the Global South, which he founded with an international network of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in 2013. Apart from publishing in the English language, Pak Nung Wong's Chinese-language columns in Hong Kong-based media have been followed, translated and used by such governmental ministries in foreign affairs, defence, security and intelligence services, culture and religion, technology and higher education across the world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The West's Decline and Future of Christian Statecraft
Part I Theory and Method 2. Outline of a Novel Christian Post-Colonial
Approach to Global Affairs 3. Discerning the Realist Spirit: Rules of
Christian Post-Colonial Method 4. Being in But not of the Powers: Contours
of Prophetic Witnessing Practice Part II Practice and Intervention 5. Risky
Great Power Politics: Emerging U.S.-China Nuclear Strategic Instability and
Interstellar Prospect 6. Hopeful Small Power Politics: Nuclearisation and
Peace-building in the Korean Peninsula 7. Defending Papuan Religious
Security under Indonesian National Security: Critique of Two Christian
Interventions in Multi-polar Indo-Pacific 8. Conclusion