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Logic of the Powers: Towards an Impact-driven Practice of Futurist Statecraft

Pak Nung Wong

This volume explores a novel Christian post-colonial approach to global affairs. It examines the existing 'sociology of the powers' theoretical scheme, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism, the method and practice of prophetic witnessing, to elaborate a new Christian approach to statecraft and futurology.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge India
  • Publish Date: Jul 30th, 2021
  • Pages: 190
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.44in - 0.66lb
  • EAN: 9780367207724
  • Categories: International Relations - GeneralFuture StudiesSociology of Religion

About the Author

Pak Nung Wong teaches politics and international relations at the University of Bath, UK. His recent publications include Destined Statecraft: Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts (2018), Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia: A Treatise of Christian Statecraft (2016) and Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State-Building and the Chinese in the Philippines (2013). He is Editor-in-Chief of Bandung: Journal of the Global South, which he founded with an international network of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in 2013. Apart from publishing in the English language, Pak Nung Wong's Chinese-language columns in Hong Kong-based media have been followed, translated and used by such governmental ministries in foreign affairs, defence, security and intelligence services, culture and religion, technology and higher education across the world.