Rethinking Asia and International Relations: Rethinking Asia and International Relations
About the Book Series
This series provides thoughtful consideration both of the growing prominence of Asian actors on the global stage and the changes in the study and practice of world affairs that they provoke. It offers a comprehensive parallel assessment of the full spectrum of Asian states, organisations, and regions and their impact on the dynamics of global politics. The series encourages conversation on: ¢ What rules, norms, and strategic cultures are likely to dominate international life in the 'Asian Century'; ¢ How will global problems be reframed and addressed by a 'rising Asia'; ¢ Which institutions, actors, and states are likely to provide leadership during such 'shifts to the East'; ¢ Whether there is something distinctly 'Asian' about the emerging patterns of global politics. Such comprehensive engagement not only offers a critical assessment of the actual and prospective roles of Asian actors, but rethinks the concepts, practices, and frameworks of analysis of world politics.
Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia
1st Edition
By Glenn Diesen
July 29, 2019
Moscow has progressively replaced geopolitics with geoeconomics as power is recognised to derive from the state’s ability to establish a privileged position in strategic markets and transportation corridors. The objective is to bridge the vast Eurasian continent to reposition Russia from the ...
Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, Mélissa Levaillant
July 29, 2019
Examined from a non-Western lens, the standard International Relations (IR) and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) approaches are ill-adapted because of some Eurocentric and conceptual biases. These biases partly stem from: first, the dearth of analyses focusing on non-Western cases; second, the primacy...
Uncertainty, Threat, and International Security: Implications for Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Ivan Savic, Zachary C. Shirkey
July 25, 2019
The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arrangement will be crucial to international relations for the coming decades. This book builds on existing realist and rationalist concepts of balancing, ...
China's New Governing Party Paradigm: Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation
1st Edition
By Timothy R. Heath
August 14, 2018
For the first time since its founding in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a new paradigm for its role in China. Abandoning its former identity as a 'revolutionary party', the CCP now regards itself as a 'governing party' committed to meeting the diverse needs of its people and ...
One Korea: Visions of Korean unification
1st Edition
Edited
By Tae-Hwan Kwak, Seung-Ho Joo
August 14, 2018
On the Korean peninsula, there exist two sovereign states—the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)—both of whom hold separate membership at the United Nations. This book discusses the construction of "one Korea" and highlights ...
Power Transition in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By David Walton, Emilian Kavalski
August 14, 2018
Current preoccupations with the 'rise of Asia' attest to the nascent contestation of the very idea of what the pattern of international politics should look like and how it should be practiced. In this respect, the growing reference to a 'shift to the East' in global politics has become a popular ...
Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Sebastian Maslow, Ra Mason, Paul O'Shea
August 14, 2018
The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to be applied. Conventional ...
The China-Japan Border Dispute: Islands of Contention in Multidisciplinary Perspective
1st Edition
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By Tim F. Liao, Kimie Hara, Krista Wiegand
August 14, 2018
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume offers a rare forum for a serious analysis of the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan. To understand the complexity of the dispute and to find peaceful solutions, we must reach beyond the confines of a single ...
India and the Responsibility to Protect
1st Edition
By Alan Bloomfield
October 12, 2017
Bloomfield charts India’s profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally undermining the sovereign state system, a matter which is now substantially shaped by debates about the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm. Books ...
Managing Global Risks in the Urban Age: Singapore and the Making of a Global City
1st Edition
By Yee-Kuang Heng
October 12, 2017
The first full-length exposition of what it terms a global city-global risks nexus, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries to draw upon research from Security Studies; Geography; Sociology; and Urban Studies. Innovative in its approach integrating theories about Global Cities with those ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Emilian Kavalski
May 31, 2017
The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy draws out the full range of topics and issues that characterise China's external affairs. The volume is intended to provide an overview of Chinese foreign policy that will be relevant both to experts in the field as well as those that are ...
Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Pınar Bilgin, L.H.M. Ling
January 27, 2017
Asia in International Relations decolonizes conventional understandings and representations of Asia in International Relations (IR). This book opens by including all those geographical and cultural linkages that constitute Asia today but are generally ignored by mainstream IR. Covering the Indian ...