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.
Relative Power, Preventative War, and Hegemonic Restoration: Explaining and Understanding Trump’s Grand Strategy
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
April 30, 2027
In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab offers a provocative theoretical rethinking of American hegemony by amending Offensive Realism to account for fear-driven preventative war as a strategy for hegemonic restoration. Building on Structural Realism and well-established theories of hegemonic rise and ...
From Radical Right to Reactionary Internationalism: Serbia, Russia, and the Ukrainian War
1st Edition
By Goran Tepsic
March 08, 2027
From Radical Right to Reactionary Internationalism offers an innovative account of how the contemporary radical right has evolved from a collection of nationalist movements into a reactionary transnational force united by civilisationist worldviews. Drawing on interviews, digital ethnography and ...
Disentangling Populism, Nationalism and Anti-politics: When is a Political Movement Populist?
1st Edition
By Blendi Kajsiu
February 11, 2027
Disentangling Populism, Nationalism and Anti-politics identifies three basic elements that define a populist political movement; a thin populist ideology, located at the center of its discourse, which generates more electoral support from the lower classes. These elements serve as useful criteria ...
Domestic Politics and the Management of Great Power Relations: Second Image Revisited
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Chan, William R. Thompson
February 04, 2027
This groundbreaking volume shifts the focus of international relations scholarship to the often-overlooked domestic sources of foreign policy. Through compelling case studies spanning Anglo-American relations to contemporary China's rise, leading scholars examine how internal politics, public ...
Courts as Actors in Global Environmental Politics: Litigation and Norm Fusion
1st Edition
By Defne Gönenç
December 23, 2026
Environmental conflicts are increasingly being fought in courtrooms rather than legislatures. Yet can litigation do more than resolve individual disputes? Can it reshape the norms that govern the relationship between human rights and the environment? In Courts as Actors in Global Environmental ...
Australian Middle Power: A Constructivist Framework
1st Edition
By Adam Vallelonga, Czeslaw Tubilewicz
December 22, 2026
Vallelonga and Tubilewicz challenge rationalist approaches that define middle powers based on material capabilities, diplomatic behaviour, or systemic influence, arguing instead that middle powers are socially constructed through interactions within states and across the international system. ...
Non-Western Middle Powers in the Multipolar Order
1st Edition
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By Hanna Samir Kassab, Natalie Ann Ghosn
November 24, 2026
Non-Western Middle Powers in the Multipolar Order explores the changing international order, articulating the critical and growing importance of non-Western states to the emerging global order. It brings together international scholars to provide new insights on the evolution of international ...
Fentanyl: From the Labs to the Streets
1st Edition
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By Jonathan D. Rosen, Sebastián A. Cutrona
October 15, 2026
The ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S. is just a glimpse of a complex ecosystem characterized by the interaction of multifaceted actors from various countries around the world cooperating across different stages of the global supply chain. In Fentanyl: From the Labs to the Streets, twenty-one ...
Cyber Power in a Digital World: The Evolution of Digital Mentality and Cyber Power Perceptions
1st Edition
By Bruna Toso de Alcântara, Donavon Johnson
October 13, 2026
Cyberpower is a concept that has gained relevance with geopolitical dynamics reaching cyberspace and the increasing intertwining between the physical and digital. In this regard, this concept has been treated through three theoretical lenses: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Still, ...
Clash of Exceptionalism in International Relations: Contemporary Dynamics and Impacts of US and China Exceptionalism on Global Affairs
1st Edition
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By Najimdeen Bakare
October 09, 2026
Bakare presents a critical yet divergent view of American and Chinese exceptionalism that problematizes the contextual nexus between exceptionalism and soft power as a form of diplomacy. It also dissects the normative, structural, intellectual, and material content of American and Chinese ...
100 Years of Turkish-Japanese Relations: From History to Economy, Culture to Art
1st Edition
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By Hasan Topaçoğlu
September 28, 2026
Japan and Türkiye, situated at opposite ends of Asia like two pillars of a bridge, have long maintained strong relations. These ties, spanning over a century, encompass historical, cultural, political, and social dimensions. Topaçoğlu and his contributors present a comprehensive analysis of Asia ...
Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics
1st Edition
By Qinyi Xu, Chuanjing Guan
September 28, 2026
Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics delves into the structure, driving forces and contemporary influencing factors of trade relations dynamics, providing insights into the present and future trajectories of the global trade order. The post-pandemic global governance challenges ...