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This volume argues that contemporary political and security revisionism should not be considered a homogenous attack against the international order but rather a bag of tailor-made strategies to exploit opportunities found in various, highly localised contexts.
Scholars with backgrounds in Security Studies, Area Studies, International Relations and Political Theory are brought to examine revisionist tendencies in Central Eastern Europe, Post-Soviet Space, China and the Transatlantic Space. In doing so, they try to remedy the existing disciplinary separatism, or 'policing', which has obfuscated any theorisation of the connections between international and domestic politics for many decades. Part of the analytical focus is on novel phenomena, especially the utilization of cyberspace and new social media and technological innovation. One of the conclusions of this volume is that the rise in contemporary revisionism shows the oft-forgotten importance of the first image of international politics: political leaders, in other words, do indeed matter. The fact that they matter is only reinforced when they represent regional or even great powers, and especially revisionist regimes and states with the propensity to produce complex effects.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.
List of contents
Introduction - Political Revisionism: Old and New 1. Contemporary Revisionism in the Multilayered Political Order: Operationalisation, Techno-Social Conditions, Dilemmas 2. Russian, US and Chinese Revisionism: Bridging Domestic and Great Power Politics 3. Russian Revisionism, Legal Discourse and the ‘Rules-Based’ International Order 4. Between Pastiche and Sampling: NATO’s Strategic Adaptation to Russian Revisionism 5. Building a Multiple ‘Security Shelter’ in the Baltic States after EU and NATO Accession 6. Accommodating Revisionism through Balancing Regionalism: The Case of Central Asia 7. The Perils of Path Dependency: Germany’s Russia Policy 8. From Revolution to ‘Counter-Revolution’: Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years On
About the author
Nik Hynek is Professor specialising in Security Studies at Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic, and in the Department of Security Studies in Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He leads the inter-scientific Charles University Research Centre of Excellence dedicated to the topic of ‘Human-Machine Nexus and the Implications for the International Order’. His forthcoming monograph is titled Militarizing Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Technology and Regulation (with Anzhelika Solovyeva, Routledge 2022).
Vít Střítecký is Associate Professor of Security Studies and Head of the Department of Security Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He is a founding member of Periculum, Charles University Centre of Excellence, where he develops interdisciplinary research focusing on machine learning deployment in social context and related regulatory policies. His most recent publications appeared in ACM Computing Surveys and Futures.
Summary
This volume argues that contemporary political and security revisionism should not be considered a homogenous attack against the international order but rather a bag of tailor-made strategies to exploit opportunities found in various, highly localised contexts.
Scholars with backgrounds in Security Studies, Area Studies, International Relations and Political Theory are brought to examine revisionist tendencies in Central Eastern Europe, Post-Soviet Space, China and the Transatlantic Space. In doing so, they try to remedy the existing disciplinary separatism, or ‘policing’, which has obfuscated any theorisation of the connections between international and domestic politics for many decades. Part of the analytical focus is on novel phenomena, especially the utilization of cyberspace and new social media and technological innovation. One of the conclusions of this volume is that the rise in contemporary revisionism shows the oft-forgotten importance of the first image of international politics: political leaders, in other words, do indeed matter. The fact that they matter is only reinforced when they represent regional or even great powers, and especially revisionist regimes and states with the propensity to produce complex effects.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.
