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.
De Facto State Identity and International Legitimation
1st Edition
By Sebastian Klich
May 31, 2023
Examining the state identity formation and international legitimation of de facto states, this book provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between de facto states, the international state system and international society. The book integrates International Relations theories to ...
Mega-regionalism and Great Power Geo-economic Competition
1st Edition
By Xianbai Ji
May 31, 2023
The regional trade governance architecture is in flux. The latest wave of regionalism in the form of mega-regional trade partnerships between countries with major shares of the world economy occurred in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. The most systematically important ...
Security and Safety in the Era of Global Risks
1st Edition
Edited
By Radomir Compel, Rosalie Arcala Hall
May 31, 2023
The concept of risk in global life has not been fully understood and explored and this book attempts to examine what it entails in the fast changing, interconnected and complex world. As a foundational component of safety systems, risk has been considered relatively simple, predictable, ...
The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy: Hegemony, Morality and Power in the International Sphere
1st Edition
By Colin Alexander
May 31, 2023
This edited volume provides one of the most formidable critical inquiries into public diplomacy’s relationship with hegemony, morality and power. Wherein, the examination of public diplomacy’s ‘frontiers’ will aid scholars and students alike in their acquiring of greater critical understanding ...
Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles: Crossing Simon’s Bridge
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Schafer, Stephen G. Walker
September 26, 2022
In this book, senior scholars and a new generation of analysts present different applications of recent advances linking beliefs and decision-making, in the area of foreign policy analysis with strategic interactions in world politics. Divided into five parts, Part 1 identifies how the beliefs in ...
Empires of Knowledge in International Relations: Education and Science as Sources of Power for the State
1st Edition
By Anna Wojciuk
July 12, 2022
This volume offers the first systematic account of how education and science have become sources of power for the states in international relations and what factors have effected this development. Drawing together extensive empirical data on the USA, the EU, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and China, ...
Exploring Base Politics: How Host Countries Shape the Network of U.S. Overseas Bases
1st Edition
Edited
By Shinji Kawana, Minori Takahashi
May 30, 2022
This book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases, comparing several countries across different regions. Analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, the contributors paint a detailed and ...
Understanding Mexico’s Security Conundrum
1st Edition
By Agustin Maciel-Padilla
May 30, 2022
Unlike other analyses which aim to explain the notion of national security in Mexico and at the same time address the security challenges facing the country, this short text describes the distinction between national, internal and public security in Mexico. It is the first book to provide detailed ...
United Nations Financial Sanctions
1st Edition
Edited
By Sachiko Yoshimura
May 30, 2022
This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues. With contributions from academics, diplomats and UN panel experts, Yoshimura offers an analysis of how the UN financial sanctions have evolved, the ...
A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation
1st Edition
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Emad Kiyaei
May 06, 2022
The establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons, a concept more recently broadened to cover all weapons of mass destruction (WMD), has been before the international community for decades. In this book, two experts from the region explore why the matter remains unresolved, and ...
Weak States and Spheres of Great Power Competition
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
May 06, 2022
This book explains the development of the international system’s present-day balance of power by exploring three central questions: (1) Under what conditions has the international system order evolved from a unipolar system to the current multipolar system? (2) What are its major states? (3) How do...
International Relations as Politics among People: Hermeneutic Encounters and Global Governance
1st Edition
By Hannes Hansen-Magnusson
December 13, 2021
Pioneering a hermeneutic methodology for analyses of global governance, this is the first monograph that makes Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutic philosophy relevant for global politics research. Drawing on the concept of "horizon" as the element that captures the dynamics of ...