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.
Power Vacuums and Global Politics: Areas of State and Non-state Competition in Multipolarity
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
November 28, 2024
In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework that explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system. A power vacuum is the fundamental absence of legitimate state authority over a geographic territory, and it is a space free of ...
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, Alan C. Tidwell
November 21, 2024
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 ...
Non-Western Nations and the Liberal International Order: Responding to the Backlash in the West
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiro Katsumata, Hiroki Kusano
October 08, 2024
Given the increasing presence of non-Western nations in global affairs, Hiro Katsumata and Hiroki Kusano explore their responses to the backlash taking place in the West against the global spread of liberalism – against the global spread of free trade, multilateral institutions, and ...
The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia
1st Edition
By Gabriele Abbondanza
September 23, 2024
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
September 12, 2024
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 ...
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East: In Pursuit of Hegemony
1st Edition
By Leila Nicolas
August 12, 2024
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 Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies: 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandre Couture Gagnon
August 01, 2024
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
July 25, 2024
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 ...
Globalization, Multipolarity and Great Power Competition
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
January 29, 2024
In his new book, Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system. He argues that the increase in geopolitical, economic, nationalist, and resource competition between three great powers, the ...
Positive Security: Collective Life in an Uncertain World
1st Edition
By Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Ali Bilgic
January 29, 2024
This book critically conceptualises positive security and explores multiple areas in global politics where positive security can be studied as an alternative to the existing understandings and practices of security. Structured through a framework on the practice and ethics of everyday security, ...
Rethinking Post-Cold War Russian–Latin American Relations
1st Edition
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By Vladimir Rouvinski, Victor Jeifets
January 29, 2024
Today, there is plenty of evidence that Russia has become a prominent external actor in Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet, few books have attempted to better understand the reasons behind Russia´s return and Moscow’s continuous engagement in the region. In order to fill the gap, this volume ...
Making Sense of Cyber Capabilities for Small States: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Francis C. Domingo
September 25, 2023
Domingo explores the potential of cyber capabilities for small states in the Asia-Pacific, the most active region for cyber conflict. He develops a systematic explanation for why Brunei, New Zealand, and Singapore have developed or are developing cyber capabilities. Studies on cyber conflict and ...