ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents an overview of the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a series of insights and inside accounts of the variables that must go into a new International Relations (IR). It provides a series of Asian case examples by contrasting Turkey and Ethiopia. The book focuses on Ethiopia and Turkey, and their anti-imperialist cultures of resistance, and serves great purpose both against a condescension towards Ethiopia and a romanticization of the country. It describes the Ryukyu Islands, conquered by Japan in the nineteenth century, with Okinawa at the heart of the archipelago. The book explores the case of Taiwan as being historically caught between China and Japan. It discusses that Iranian constitution is a proper constitution in the sense that it is a carefully articulated body of law and matrix for all laws.