Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
About the Book Series
International relations is a rapidly changing area of research, reacting to and anticipating an ever more integrated and globalised world. This series aims to publish the best new work in the field of international relations, and of politics more generally. Books in the series challenge existing empirical and normative theories, and advance new paradigms as well as presenting significant new research.
Turkey, Geopolitics, and the Age of Populist World-Making: Remapping Regional Orders
1st Edition
By Spyros A. Sofos
September 25, 2026
This book explores Turkey’s transformation into an active and influential emerging power under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It argues that populist governance and foreign policy are not separate domains but expressions of a common political logic. ...
Clash of Exceptionalism in International Relations: Contemporary Dynamics and Impacts of US and China Exceptionalism on Global Affairs
1st Edition
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By Najimdeen Bakare
September 21, 2026
Bakare presents a critical yet divergent views of American and Chinese exceptionalism that problematizes the contextual nexus between exceptionalism and soft power as a form of diplomacy. It also dissects the normative, structural, intellectual, and material content of American and Chinese ...
Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy
1st Edition
By Roger Boyd
July 27, 2026
Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy explores the dynamics between great power politics, elites and energy, utilizing a critical political economic and historical materialist perspective that moves away from a Western-centric viewpoint and dominant International Relations methodologies. The book...
The Australian Liberal Party: Volume 2: Policy Challenges and the Global Context
1st Edition
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By Zareh Ghazarian, Marija Taflaga, Matteo Bonotti
July 23, 2026
In this second volume of Ghazarian, Taflaga and Bonotti’s two-part collection, the editors examine the importance of political parties and how they impact local, national, and international contexts by assembling a range of experts to analyse the Liberal Party in Australia, both historically and in...
Caribbean Network Diplomacy: Addressing Global Challenges through Regional Collaboration
1st Edition
By Candia James
July 08, 2026
Caribbean Network Diplomacy: Addressing Global Challenges through Regional Collaboration analyses how Caribbean small states use communication networks, regional institutions, and collaborative coalitions to exercise diplomatic influence in an increasingly complex global system. The book advances a...
Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights: When Federalism Came to Life
1st Edition
By Clara Eugenia Franco Yáñez
June 22, 2026
Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights presents the recent evolution of abortion laws in Mexico (2007–2021) and how advocates have shaped them through human rights discourses, challenging social norms. Utilizing extended expert interviews, it offers a uniquely deep dive ...
Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands: Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork
1st Edition
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By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, James Batley, Anna Powles
June 22, 2026
Wallis, McNeill, Batley, Powles and the contributors examine the dynamics of Pacific Islands’ security cooperation, analysing how it helps address regional security challenges amid the broader strategic competition between China and the United States that is increasingly playing out in the region. ...
The Australian Liberal Party: Volume 1: Ideas, History and Organisation
1st Edition
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By Zareh Ghazarian, Marija Taflaga, Matteo Bonotti
June 10, 2026
This book is part of a two-part volume on the Liberal Party of Australia edited by Zareh Ghazarian, Matteo Bonotti, and Marija Taflaga. This volume contributes to the understanding of political parties, especially the sub-discipline of Australian politics. Australia remains one of the oldest ...
Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations in an Era of Great Power Rivalry: Navigating Rising Tensions and Strategic Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Dongtao Qi
May 29, 2026
Qi provides a comprehensive exploration of the complex and evolving dynamics in and between Taiwan, China, and the United States from 2016 to 2024. Through three unique analytical perspectives – Movement Government and Movement Society, Cross-Strait Relations Trio, and Strategic Ambiguity – these ...
Anti-biopolitics of Security: Gender-based Violence in Mexico
1st Edition
By R. Guy Emerson
May 27, 2026
Anti-biopolitics of Security: Gender-based Violence in Mexico concerns a politics of life and security in contemporary Mexico. It plots the formation of a violent event, how its deadly circulations strike the body and how the subject emerges amid these connectivities at once corporeal and material....
Mexico-China Relations: Cultural Encounters in a Global Age
1st Edition
By Francisco Antonio-Alfonso
May 21, 2026
This book analyses contemporary Mexico-China relations as a complex cultural encounter. Through an unprecedented analysis of the discursive production of a series of diplomatic, media and academic sources, this book demonstrates how, embedded in the great technological and political transformations...
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness
1st Edition
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By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, Alan Tidwell
May 21, 2026
This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region, it provides ‘both sides of the story’ of statecraft ...