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.
Global Media and Public Diplomacy in Sino-Western Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jia Gao, Catherine Ingram, Pookong Kee
June 30, 2021
Many researchers and China observers would agree that understanding how China pursues global communication is critical for assessing its growing soft power. While soft power as a concept has, in many ways, become almost inextricably linked with the PRC's (People's Republic of China) international ...
The Evolution of the Asian Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore
1st Edition
By J. J. Woo
June 30, 2021
Many East Asian states have undergone profound economic transformations over the last two decades. Singapore and Hong Kong especially have adapted to shifting economic and technological conditions by transforming themselves into ‘smart developmental states’. In these cities, the proliferation of ...
The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe
1st Edition
By Jeremy Garlick
June 30, 2021
This book merges macro- and micro-level analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to dissect China’s aim in creating an integrated Eurasian continent through this single mega-project. BRI has been the source of much interest and confusion, as established frameworks of analysis seek to ...
Turkey's Pivot to Eurasia: Geopolitics and Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order
1st Edition
Edited
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 Relations with the Gulf Monarchies
1st Edition
By Jonathan Fulton
June 30, 2020
As China’s international political role grows, its relations with states outside of its traditional sphere of interests is evolving. This is certainly the case of the Gulf monarchies of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, which together comprise the Gulf ...
External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Fulton, Li-Chen Sim
June 30, 2020
The Gulf monarchies have been generally perceived as status quo actors reliant on the USA for their security, but in response to regional events, particularly the Arab Spring of 2011, they are pursuing more activist foreign policies, which has allowed other international powers to play a larger ...
The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
1st Edition
By Glenn Diesen
June 30, 2020
What explains the rise of populist movements across the West and their affinity towards Russia? UKIP’s Brexit victory, Trump’s triumph, and the successive elections and referendums in Europe were united by a repudiation of the liberal international order. These new political forces envision the ...
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
Edited
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...