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.
Post-Cold War Predictions: Politicism in Practice
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
June 26, 2025
Post- Cold War Predictions examines how the international order evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union (and before the attacks on 9/11) by focusing on the ways we study and understand major powers’ security behavior within the evolving multipolar order. Beginning with an overview of ...
Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime: 1958-1968
1st Edition
Edited
By Pascal Lottaz, Yoko Iwama
April 14, 2025
Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty’s opening for signatures ten years ...
Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America: Explaining Theoretical Puzzles and Policy Continuities
1st Edition
Edited
By Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, Diego Zambrano
April 14, 2025
Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America elucidates why many state actors in the Global South exhibit a remarkable degree of policy continuity in their external behavior despite structural incentives for change. This book contends that the theoretical notion of strategic culture is instructive to ...
Brazilian Agricultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century: A Public – Private Partnership
1st Edition
By Niels Søndergaard
April 13, 2025
Brazil’s growing dependence on agriculture has positioned agribusiness in a uniquely privileged position to influence Brazilian foreign policy. Brazilian Agricultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century examines how the inclusion of domestic “national champions” in foreign policy has shaped events within...
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship: Evidence from the Caribbean
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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...
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 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 ...
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 ...