1st Edition

Hybridisation of Political Order and Contemporary Revisionism

Edited By Nik Hynek, Vít Střítecký Copyright 2023
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction - Political Revisionism: Old and New 
Nik Hynek and Vít Střítecký 
1. Contemporary Revisionism in the Multilayered Political Order: Operationalisation, Techno-Social Conditions, Dilemmas 
Nik Hynek and Aleš Karmazin 
2. Russian, US and Chinese Revisionism: Bridging Domestic and Great Power Politics 
Aleš Karmazin and Nik Hynek 
3. Russian Revisionism, Legal Discourse and the ‘Rules-Based’ International Order 
Roy Allison 
4. Between Pastiche and Sampling: NATO’s Strategic Adaptation to Russian Revisionism 
Tomáš Karásek 
5. Building a Multiple ‘Security Shelter’ in the Baltic States after EU and NATO Accession 
Neringa Bladaitė and Margarita Šešelgytė 
6. Accommodating Revisionism through Balancing Regionalism: The Case of Central Asia 
Aliya Tskhay and Filippo Costa Buranelli 
7. The Perils of Path Dependency: Germany’s Russia Policy 
Hans-Joachim Spanger 
8. From Revolution to ‘Counter-Revolution’: Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years On 
Jan Zielonka and Jacques Rupnik 

Biography

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.