Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia

A Treatise on Christian Statecraft

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Pak Nung Wong

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Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a ‘power’ as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff’s political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.S. foreign policy and global Christian circles. It approaches the debate by delving into the pacifist Anabaptist political theology and delineates empirically how sovereign statehood in post-colonial Africa and Asia has fallen into the hands of the devil Satan, as a ‘fallen power’ in the Foucaultian terms of power structures, techniques and episteme. While the book offers intervention schemes and options, it holds that Christian statecraft remains the source of hope to effectively address a number of serious global issues. By extension, the book is thus an invitation to ignite debates on the suitability of Christian statecraft and the nexus between spirituality and world politics, making it especially interesting for scholars and students in the fields of International Politics, Politics of Asian and African States, Post-colonial Studies and Political Theology.

Author Biography:

Dr Pak Nung Wong is a Senior Lecturer at Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies (PoLIS) at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He teaches politics and international relations in East and South East Asia. Apart from serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Bandung: Journal of the Global South (SpringerOpen), his research interests cover the sociological, geopolitical and theological-spiritual aspects of Christian statecraft in the post-colonial African and Asian contexts. Recent book is Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State Building and the Chinese in the Philippines (I. B. Tauris, 2013). As an ecumenical Christian, he was educated in Lutheran and Anglican Christian schools in Hong Kong and is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Hong Kong). He is also Research Academic at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuguegarao in the Philippines.

Release date NZ

February 24th, 2016

Author

Pak Nung Wong

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 182 p. 17 illus., 1 illus. in color.

Pages

182

Dimensions

155x235x13

ISBN-13

9789812875105

Product ID

23142049

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