Rethinking Asia and International Relations: Rethinking Asia and International Relations
About the Book Series
This series provides thoughtful consideration both of the growing prominence of Asian actors on the global stage and the changes in the study and practice of world affairs that they provoke. It offers a comprehensive parallel assessment of the full spectrum of Asian states, organisations, and regions and their impact on the dynamics of global politics. The series encourages conversation on: ¢ What rules, norms, and strategic cultures are likely to dominate international life in the 'Asian Century'; ¢ How will global problems be reframed and addressed by a 'rising Asia'; ¢ Which institutions, actors, and states are likely to provide leadership during such 'shifts to the East'; ¢ Whether there is something distinctly 'Asian' about the emerging patterns of global politics. Such comprehensive engagement not only offers a critical assessment of the actual and prospective roles of Asian actors, but rethinks the concepts, practices, and frameworks of analysis of world politics.
The European Union, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in A New Era
1st Edition
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By Fabienne Bossuyt, Bart Dessein
May 31, 2023
This book examines the involvement of the European Union (EU) and China in Central Asia and critically assesses the implications this has for the region as a whole. The volume adopts a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach, combining insights from International Relations, EU Studies, ...
Maritime and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea: Faces of Power and Law in the Age of China’s rise
1st Edition
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By Yih-Jye Hwang, Edmund Frettingham
September 23, 2022
This edited volume rethinks the relationship between power and law in the age of China’s rise by examining recent developments in the South China Sea (SCS). The contributors explore different interpretations of international law on the legal status of the contested islands and rocks and provide ...
Configuring the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Power, Interests and Status
1st Edition
By Ian Tsung-Yen Chen
August 01, 2022
Studying the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) through the lens of international relations (IR) theory, Chen argues that it is inappropriate to treat the AIIB as either a revisionist or a complementary institution. Instead, the bank is still evolving and the interaction of power, ...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Strategic and Economic Impacts on Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Alfred Gerstl, Ute Wallenböck
May 30, 2022
This edited volume presents a trans-disciplinary and multifaceted assessment of the strategic and economic impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on three regions, namely Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Eastern Europe. The contributions to this book demonstrate the requirement ...
China and Middle East Conflicts: Responding to War and Rivalry from the Cold War to the Present
1st Edition
By Guy Burton
May 06, 2022
How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict? Using China, the book studies its response to wars and rivalries in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present. Since the People’s Republic was established in 1949, China has long been involved in the Middle East and ...
Regions in the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
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By Jonathan Fulton
May 06, 2022
Introduced in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had a significant impact within Asia and across other regions. This book provides empirical case studies examining the relations between China and the states in specific regional groupings, including South-East Asia, Central Asia, South...
Turkey's Pivot to Eurasia: Geopolitics and Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order
1st Edition
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By Emre Erşen, Seçkin Köstem
June 30, 2021
This book discusses and analyses the dimensions of Turkey’s strategic rapprochement with the Eurasian states and institutions since the deterioration of Ankara’s relations with its traditional NATO allies. Do these developments signify a major strategic reorientation in Turkish foreign policy? Is ...
China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective: From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners
1st Edition
By Steven F. Jackson
April 28, 2020
China’s relations with its neighbors have evolved since 1949, and in the 21st century many scholars argue that China’s rising power has led it to be increasingly domineering over those smaller countries in Northeast, Southeast, Central, and South Asia. The evolution of China’s regional relations ...
Japan and East Asian Integration: Trade and Domestic Politics
1st Edition
By Jemma Kim
April 28, 2020
For almost fifty years Japan pursued a single-track approach focusing trade negotiation efforts exclusively on the global multilateral forum while shunning regionalism as harmful to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs/ World Trade Organisation system. However, following the tsunami disaster ...
India-US Relations in the Age of Uncertainty: An uneasy courtship
1st Edition
By B.M. Jain
July 29, 2019
In the initial phase of the Obama administration, India’s ruling class and strategic community formed a perception that the spirit of strategic partnership between the two countries might be diluted on account of China looming large in the priorities of this administration. Despite ...
Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia
1st Edition
By Glenn Diesen
July 29, 2019
Moscow has progressively replaced geopolitics with geoeconomics as power is recognised to derive from the state’s ability to establish a privileged position in strategic markets and transportation corridors. The objective is to bridge the vast Eurasian continent to reposition Russia from the ...
Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy
1st Edition
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By Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, Mélissa Levaillant
July 29, 2019
Examined from a non-Western lens, the standard International Relations (IR) and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) approaches are ill-adapted because of some Eurocentric and conceptual biases. These biases partly stem from: first, the dearth of analyses focusing on non-Western cases; second, the primacy...