Dynamics of the Changing Global Security Order

Senthan Selvarajah is Co-Director at the Centre for Media, Human Rights and Peacebuilding, UK, CEO at the Gate Foundation, UK, and an Academic Tutor and a PhD Supervisor at Unicaf University, Cyprus. Nesrin Kenar is associate professor at Sakarya University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Turkey. Lorenzo Fiorito (LL.M) is student barrister in London. He has lived, worked, and studied in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Part I: The Rise of China and the Power Struggle in Asia

Chapter 1: Great Power Rivalry and the Politics of Central Asia

John Miglietta

Chapter 2: China’s Geoeconomic Strategy and Sri Lanka’s International Commercial Dispute Resolution Centre

Lorenzo Fiorito

Chapter 3: Implications of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) on South Asia

Rajib Timalsina and Indivar Paudel

Chapter 4: China's Position in the Global Order: Challenging the US Supremacy in the 21st Century

Muamer Hirkić

Part II: The Changing Nature of Warfare and Weaponry

Chapter 5: A Profitable Enterprise: The Emergence of Private Military Companies as Stakeholders in International Security

Ushmayo Bhattacharya

Chapter 6: The New Nuclear Arms Race: Implications for Global Security

Ghazala Yasmin Jalil

Chapter 7: A Perilous Nexus: Military Drones, Power, Risk-Taking

Hafssa Fakher Elabiari

Chapter 8: U.S.-Da Afghanistan Bank Sanctions: An Inelegant Solution to a Self-Imposed Problem

Michael Larrick

Chapter 9: US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and Its Impact on War on Terror and Peace and Stability in South Asia

Aslam Khan

Part III: Sociological Approaches to Conflicts and Security

Chapter 10: Exploring the Organic Regional Security Model (ORSM) to Construct a Transborder Security Integration in the South Asian Region

Iqbal Shailo

Chapter 11: Trauma, Ontological Insecurity, and States Conflictual Behaviours: The Case of Iran and the West

Chapter 12: Socio-Economic Dynamics Fostering Anti-Democratic Regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Ongoing wars, Contemporary Issues and Humanitarian Crises

Mehmet Babacan

Part IV: Coercion, Culture, and Environment in International Relations

Chapter 13: Coercion in International Affairs: Nature, Forms and Mechanisms: A Theoretical and a Practical Perspective

Jean Yves Ndzana Ndzana

Chapter 14: Does International Relations Theory Fully Understand Culture?

Tamta Tskhovrebadze

Chapter 15: Key Issues of Water Security in International Relations

Adriano Mortada

Part V: Effects of Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic on International Order

Chapter 16: Mask Diplomacy on the New Silk Road: The Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic for China’s Quest for Global leadership

Paulina Kanarek

Chapter 17: The Rise and Fall of Militant Wings in the Wake of COVID-19

Maheen Farhat Raza and Muhammad Ali Raza