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.
Disentangling Populism, Nationalism and Anti-politics: When is a Political Movement Populist?
1st Edition
By Blendi Kajsiu
February 16, 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 ...
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. ...
Fentanyl: From the Labs to the Streets
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan D. Rosen, Sebastián A. Cutrona
October 16, 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 14, 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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War: A Theory of Armed Emergence
1st Edition
By Dylan Motin
September 28, 2026
Motin examines great powers’ reactions to the rise of new powers in bipolar international systems by exploring an understudied problem: the rarity of armed emergence after 1945. The book focuses on Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Vietnam; the few minor powers that attempted to emerge as great powers ...
Turkey, Geopolitics, and the Age of Populist World-Making: Remapping Regional Orders
1st Edition
By Spyros A. Sofos
September 07, 2026
This book explores Turkey’s transformation into an active and influential emerging power under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It argues that populist governance and foreign policy are not separate domains but expressions of a common political logic. ...
Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy
1st Edition
By Roger Boyd
July 31, 2026
Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy explores the dynamics between great power politics, elites and energy, utilizing a critical political economic and historical materialist perspective that moves away from a Western-centric viewpoint and dominant International Relations methodologies. The book...
The Australian Liberal Party: Volume 2: Policy Challenges and the Global Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Zareh Ghazarian, Marija Taflaga, Matteo Bonotti
July 23, 2026
In this second volume of Ghazarian, Taflaga and Bonotti’s two-part collection, the editors examine the importance of political parties and how they impact local, national, and international contexts by assembling a range of experts to analyse the Liberal Party in Australia, both historically and in...