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.
US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing: West Europe and East Asia during and after the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Nobuki Kawasaki, Takeshi Sakade, Hubert Zimmermann
May 21, 2026
Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the United States (US) and its allies after World War II, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia. Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume identify ...
Political Realism: An Evolutionary Theory of International Relations
1st Edition
By W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
April 13, 2026
Political Realism: An Evolutionary Theory of International Relations offers a bold reinterpretation of realist international relations (IR) theory that considers human evolution. It introduces five fundamental concepts (a realist core), twenty-four original laws of realism and normative visions of ...
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East: In Pursuit of Hegemony
1st Edition
By Leila Nicolas
January 30, 2026
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers. The book adds new aspects to the extensive literature on grand ...
The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia
1st Edition
By Gabriele Abbondanza
January 30, 2026
Irregular migration is one of the most momentous phenomena of the 21st century. While it is a life‑changing process for migrants themselves, it also entails a number of significant challenges for destination countries and their local populations. Consequently, irregular migration is now a heavily ...
The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States: The Cases of Bhutan and Qatar
1st Edition
By Sarina Theys
January 30, 2026
This book critically engages with the concepts of small states and soft power and advances a new approach to defining small states, a new conceptualisation of soft power, and a method for empirically analysing the exercise of soft power. It revisits the concepts of small states and soft power with ...
Multipolar Revisionism and Cutting the Cost of American Hegemony: The Long-Run is Here
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
January 21, 2026
Multipolar Revisionism and Cutting the Cost of American Hegemony offers timely analysis of how shifting global power dynamics are reshaping the international order. Grounded in Structural Realism, Hanna Samir Kassab examines how states pursue survival through power accumulation in an increasingly ...
Unpacking "De-risking" China in the Indo-Pacific Region: Origin, Evolution and Variations
1st Edition
Edited
By Karl Chee Leong Lee, Jens Damm, Nurliana Kamaruddin, Nur Shahadah Jamil, Alan Hao Yang
December 29, 2025
Lee and editors bring together a group of international scholars to map the overall landscape of “de-risking” China ─ a concept that drew consensus among the Group of Seven (G7) countries. Divided into three themes of conceptual evolution, national responses of individual Indo-Pacific countries and...
The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies: 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandre Couture Gagnon
December 26, 2025
The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies focuses on the impact of the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions on the cultural policies of eight states and substates, examining how they have integrated it into their own cultural policy. Cultural diversity presents a challenge ...
The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia: A Quiet Transformation
1st Edition
By Iain Pirie
November 28, 2025
The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia challenges the assumption that the global financial crisis had a limited structural impact on East Asian political economies, arguing that the crisis has led to a significant, if uneven, reorganization of major national political ...
Economic Governance, Political Freedoms and the Conditions of Societal Violence: Liberty and Peace
1st Edition
By Indra de Soysa
September 30, 2025
This book shows how the underlying causes of civil war and political violence are based in concrete conditions relating to economic governance. The author argues that what matters for cauterizing the potentiality of "sustainable" violence is economic governance, specifically growth-promoting ...
Political Species: The Evolution and Diversity of Private Organizations in Politics
1st Edition
By Karsten Ronit
August 29, 2025
In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Focusing on the evolution of a diversity of such private actors/organizations ...
Non-Western Middle Powers in the Multipolar Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna Samir Kassab, Natalie Ann Ghosn
August 04, 2025
Non-Western Middle Powers in the Multipolar Order explores the changing international order, articulating the critical and growing importance of non-Western states to the emerging global order. It brings together international scholars to provide new insights on the evolution of international ...