Interests and Stability or Ideologies and Order in Contemporary World Politics.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- 1. Definitions of the political arena -- 2. Definitions of the cultural arena -- 3. Definitions of the military arena -- 4. Definitions of the economic arena -- 5. The definition of political cultures, interests and ideologies -- 6. The definition of (world) order -- Chapter Two -- 1. Models of foreign policy ranks of power status -- 2. A deviant case in Europe -- 3. Models of political cultures in foreign policy -- 4. Models of political cultures in migration flows -- 5. Models of domestic institutions' decision-making in foreign economic policy -- Chapter Three -- 1. Models of the international system after 1989 -- 2. The definition of international stability -- Chapter Four -- Introduction on political cultures in the cultural arena -- 1. Models of conflict resolution -- 2. Diagnoses of contemporary conflict resolution processes -- 3. Therapies -- 4. The influence of political cultures in the cultural arena -- Chapter Five -- Introduction on political cultures in the economic arena -- 1. North-North relations -- 1.1. Four models of globalization processes -- 1.2. Global institutions -- 1.3. Global economic system -- 2. North-South relations -- 2.1. Data on economic development of non-Western countries -- 2.2. A model on power-dependence relations -- 2.3. Economic institutional change in developing countries -- 2.3.1. The first institutional change in Latin America -- 2.3.2. The Asian NICs' market transition at the end of the 1950s -- 2.3.3. The Chilean market transition in the 1970s -- 2.3.4. The debtors' cartel failure in Latin America in the 1980s -- 2.3.5. The Latin American market transition after 1989 -- 2.3.6. The Latin American market reforms since the 1990s -- 3. The influence of political cultures in the economic arena -- Chapter Six.

Introduction on political cultures in the political arena -- 1. Models of external anchorage to democracy -- 2. Political conditionality -- 2.1. Political conditionality on development cooperation -- 2.2. Political conditionality on the European Union enlargement -- 2.3. A summarizing typology on conditionality -- 3. Political rewards -- 3.1. Rewards to democratizing states: diplomatic pressures -- 3.2. Rewards to democratizing states: increased economic aid -- 3.3. Rewards to democratizing states: democratic assistance -- 3.4. The relation between enlargement and democratic consolidation in eastern Europe -- 4. Contagion -- 4.1. The transition process in Latin America in the 1980s -- 4.2. The beginning of democratic consolidation in Latin America in the 1990s -- 5. The exceptions to democracy -- 5.1. Autocracy promotion -- 5.2. Models of hybrid regimes -- 5.3. Models of non-democratic regimes -- 5.3.1. Military regimes -- 5.3.2. Neo-patrimonial regimes -- 5.3.3. Post-communist regimes -- 5.3.4. Theocratic regimes -- 5.3.5. A typology of current non-democratic regimes -- 6. The influence of political cultures in the political arena -- Chapter Seven -- 1. Models on the relations between economic institutions and political regimes -- 1.1. State authoritarianism and liberal democracy -- 1.2. Protectionist democracy -- 1.3. Market authoritarianism -- 1.4. Two short-cuts: democracy first or market first -- 2. The quantitative analysis of five non-Western regions (in 2015) -- 3. The relation between two values of world order (market and democracy) outside the West -- Chapter Eight -- 1. The influence of political cultures in the military arena -- 2. The peace-keeping missions of the United Nations -- Conclusions -- 1. The freezing of ideas in Western diplomacies of multipolarism and bipolarism (Phase 1).

2. The increasing influence of ideological political cultures from 1989 to 2008 (Phase 2) -- 3. Hypotheses on the increasing role of ideas in international relations after 1989 -- 4. The changes with Obama from 2009 to 2016 (Phase 3) -- 5. Some contradictions among the values of world order -- 6. The linkage between world order and international stability -- Bibliography -- 1. International Relations and Political Science theory -- 2. Political cultures and ideologies -- 3. World order -- 4. Foreign policy -- 5. International system -- 6. Cultural and military arenas -- 7. Economic arena -- 8. Political conditionality -- 9. Market and democracy -- 10. Latin America -- 11. Statistics.

Drawing upon extensive experience of both theoretical and empirical research, according to the Italian school of Political Science, this book provides a holistic assessment of contemporary world politics. It begins by defining concepts such as "world order", before going on to classify foreign policies into four models of political cultures: namely, the "interests-intensive" conservative; the "ideologies-intensive" liberal, the leftist constructivist, and the leftist Manichean. The volume shows how multipolar and bipolar systems have remained relatively stable, with each main power defending its own interests, yet ultimately not promoting ideas and order. Change periods, however, are instable. Between 1915 and 1945, Nazi-fascist and communist ideologies emerged, but, after Yalta, the West did not effectively export market, democracy and peace to the Third World. After 1989, the ideas of liberalism (in economic globalization and EU enlargement), neo-conservatism (in the Iraq war), and multi-cultural leftism (in pluri-national conflict resolution processes) began to be applied toward a "near" world order. Since 2001, Islamic fundamentalism's threat has prevented both stability (with the failure of the concert of powers of the 1990s), and order (with minimal improvements in democracy and peace). Following the Arab Spring, Obama has also abandoned interests-intensive conservative diplomacy, no longer supporting "lesser evils" (personalistic or military regimes) against "absolute evils" (such as the Islamic State), and waged only "low intensity" wars in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

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