The Library
Leadership and followership in post-unipolar world : towards selective global leadership and a new functionalism?
Tools
Breslin, Shaun (2017) Leadership and followership in post-unipolar world : towards selective global leadership and a new functionalism? Chinese Political Science Review, 2 (4). pp. 494-511. doi:10.1007/s41111-017-0082-y ISSN 2365-4244 .
|
PDF
WRAP-leadership-followership-post-unipolar-functionalism-Breslin-2017.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (1049Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-017-0082-y
Abstract
Despite a reduction in support for US global leadership (and an apparent reduction of desire to provide it), it remains unlikely that we will have a traditionally conceived of power transition where one power cedes global predominance to a challenger any time soon. Although power shifts really are occurring with more actors able and willing to provide leadership roles, this does not presage the onset of a multipolar order; at least as polar orders are typically understood. Rather, we see the transition to an order with multiple sites of authority that lacks the fixed and stable forms of alliances normally associated with polarity. David Mitrany's emphasis on the importance of functionalism might not provide a blueprint for the future, but does provide a way into thinking about non-polar forms of global governance, different and multiple sites of authority, and different forms of leadership within this global order. It also adds to the study of the capability and willingness of putative leaders the importance of acceptance and followership in international relations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Chinese Political Science Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2365-4244 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2017 | ||||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||||
Volume: | 2 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 494-511 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s41111-017-0082-y | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 September 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 January 2018 | ||||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year