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.
Europeanisation and Eurasianism in Turkey and Ukraine: Balancing between Integration and Autonomy
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By Lucie Tungul
March 27, 2025
This book analyses the impact of external actors, primarily the European Union (EU) and Russia, on democratisation and authoritarian tendencies in Ukraine and Turkey. The war in Ukraine will continue to affect patterns of cooperation and confrontation in the Black Sea region for years to come, ...
Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands: Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork
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By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, James Batley, Anna Powles
March 20, 2025
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. ...
Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence: How Journalists Survive and Resist
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By Tamsin S. Mitchell
March 17, 2025
Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence is a qualitative, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of journalists’ responses to impunity for anti-press violence in two Latin American partial democracies, Mexico and Honduras. It is the first book-length analysis of the security and ...
Technology Transfer to Latin American Countries: Drifting Away from the United States and China?
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By Sascha Hannig Núñez
March 12, 2025
Hannig Núñez analyzes the processes behind technology transfers at a state-decision-making level in Latin America. She challenges the conventional notion that the United States and China hold a dominant technological presence over the region, highlighting the increasing influence from both middle ...
Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights: When Federalism Came to Life
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By Clara Eugenia Franco Yáñez
March 07, 2025
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 ...
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship: Evidence from the Caribbean
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By Yonique Campbell, Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers
January 30, 2025
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean. Using empirical and secondary data and drawing on feminist theoretical insights, Yonique ...
Global Instability and Strategic Crisis
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By Neville Brown
January 30, 2025
This review of the new situation proposes a broader remit for strategic studies than ever before. A prime concern is that Space not be weaponised in pursuance of missile defence.The interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq are assessed. The Holy Land, Southern Africa, Indonesia, China and the Arctic ...
Australia’s Pursuit of an Independent Foreign Policy under the Whitlam Labor Government: The Achievements and Limitations of a Middle Power
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By Changwei Chen
December 18, 2024
Examining a series of episodes in Australia’s foreign relations under Whitlam, the author pays attention to a broad range of hitherto insufficiently researched domestic and international issues in Australian’s foreign relations of the early 1970s. The election of the Whitlam-led Labor Government in...
US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing: West Europe and East Asia during and after the Cold War
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By Nobuki Kawasaki, Takeshi Sakade, Hubert Zimmermann
December 03, 2024
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 ...
Mexico-China Relations: Cultural Encounters in a Global Age
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By Francisco Antonio-Alfonso
December 02, 2024
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...
Evolution of the United Nations System: An East Asian Perspective
1st Edition
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By The Japan Association for United Nations Studies (JAUNS)
November 29, 2024
Contributors from Japan, Korea, and China explore the reaction of the United Nations to emerging global issues. A collaboration between the Japan Association for United Nations Studies with the Korea Academic Council on the United Nations System and the China Academic Net for United Nations Studies...
Asymmetric Neighbors and International Relations: Living in the Shadow of Elephants
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By Ian Roberge, Nara Park, Thomas R. Klassen
November 28, 2024
With a range of case studies from every continent, the contributors to this book analyze the challenges that arise for states living with much larger neighbors, and the policies they develop to account for this asymmetry. Bringing together the perspectives of bilateral relations and the study of ...