BOOK REVIEW: Joel Wuthnow, ‟Chinese Diplomacy and the UN Security Council: Beyond the Veto”, London and New York, Routledge, 2013, 240 pp.

Abstract

While the world is adjusting to yet another fragmented cycle of humanity, the coeval circumstances represent the quintessential momentum to reset the standards of aspirations, values and principles of nations across the world. Recent developments within the greater geopolitical diagram brought a major consequence which is synonym, I would say, to the notion of power vacuum. Hence, such features become harder to be digested by those classical actors. In parallel, witnessing a fluctuant 21^st Century where tradition meets modernism, where the West meets the East, the ever-changing framework offers, beyond doubt, the chance for states to assert, to step up and expand its potential inward different patterns; it is the terminus point when these actors acquire specific configurations and take the opportunity to reshape those already existing frameworks.