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.
Mexico-China Relations: Cultural Encounters in a Global Age
1st Edition
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
Edited
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
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
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 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
Edited
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
Edited
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
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 ...
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
Edited
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 ...