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 and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness
1st Edition
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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 ...
Corporate Risk and National Security Redefined
1st Edition
By Karen Lund Petersen
October 14, 2024
Contemporary security policy is no longer a matter of protecting borders or fighting an identified foreign enemy. With counterterrorism high on the security agenda, private citizens and companies have all come to be seen as central to the aim of providing security. Situated within the debate on ...
Interrogating Democracy in World Politics
1st Edition
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By Joe Hoover, Meera Sabaratnam, Laust Schouenborg
October 14, 2024
It is often assumed that democracy is both desirable and possible in global politics. Interrogating Democracy in World Politics provides an important counter-argument to this assumption by questioning the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary international and global ...
Issue Salience in International Politics
1st Edition
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By Kai Oppermann, Henrike Viehrig
October 14, 2024
This book analyses the salience of foreign and security policy issues to domestic actors, its role in the analysis of international politics and its consequences for foreign policy decision-making. It provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of issue salience and develops the state of the ...
Non-Western Nations and the Liberal International Order: Responding to the Backlash in the West
1st Edition
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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 ...
Globalization, Multipolarity and Great Power Competition
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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
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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 ...
Perspectives on the State Borders in Globalized Africa
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By Yuichi Sasaoka, Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo, Sayoko Uesu
September 25, 2023
Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of ...
The Uneven Offshore World: Mauritius, India, and Africa in the Global Economy
1st Edition
By Justin Robertson, Michael Tyrala
September 25, 2023
Informed by world-systems analysis, this book examines the shifting patterns of accommodation and resistance to the offshore world, with a particular focus on Mauritius as a critical but underappreciated offshore node mediating foreign investment into India and Africa. ...
Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse?
1st Edition
By Joana Castro Pereira, Viola Eduardo
May 31, 2023
This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest’s resilience. The...