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.
The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia
1st Edition
By Gabriele Abbondanza
January 30, 2026
Irregular migration is one of the most momentous phenomena of the 21st century. While it is a life‑changing process for migrants themselves, it also entails a number of significant challenges for destination countries and their local populations. Consequently, irregular migration is now a heavily ...
The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States: The Cases of Bhutan and Qatar
1st Edition
By Sarina Theys
January 30, 2026
This book critically engages with the concepts of small states and soft power and advances a new approach to defining small states, a new conceptualisation of soft power, and a method for empirically analysing the exercise of soft power. It revisits the concepts of small states and soft power with ...
Multipolar Revisionism and Cutting the Cost of American Hegemony: The Long-Run is Here
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
January 22, 2026
Multipolar Revisionism and Cutting the Cost of American Hegemony offers timely analysis of how shifting global power dynamics are reshaping the international order. Grounded in Structural Realism, Hanna Samir Kassab examines how states pursue survival through power accumulation in an increasingly ...
Unpacking "De-risking" China in the Indo-Pacific Region: Origin, Evolution and Variations
1st Edition
Edited
By Karl Chee Leong Lee, Jens Damm, Nurliana Kamaruddin, Nur Shahadah Jamil, Alan Hao Yang
December 29, 2025
Lee and editors bring together a group of international scholars to map the overall landscape of “de-risking” China ─ a concept that drew consensus among the Group of Seven (G7) countries. Divided into three themes of conceptual evolution, national responses of individual Indo-Pacific countries and...
The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies: 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandre Couture Gagnon
December 26, 2025
The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies focuses on the impact of the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions on the cultural policies of eight states and substates, examining how they have integrated it into their own cultural policy. Cultural diversity presents a challenge ...
The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia: A Quiet Transformation
1st Edition
By Iain Pirie
November 28, 2025
The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia challenges the assumption that the global financial crisis had a limited structural impact on East Asian political economies, arguing that the crisis has led to a significant, if uneven, reorganization of major national political ...
Economic Governance, Political Freedoms and the Conditions of Societal Violence: Liberty and Peace
1st Edition
By Indra de Soysa
September 30, 2025
This book shows how the underlying causes of civil war and political violence are based in concrete conditions relating to economic governance. The author argues that what matters for cauterizing the potentiality of "sustainable" violence is economic governance, specifically growth-promoting ...
Political Species: The Evolution and Diversity of Private Organizations in Politics
1st Edition
By Karsten Ronit
August 29, 2025
In Political Species, Karsten Ronit expertly argues that evolutionary biology can provide important sources of inspiration for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Focusing on the evolution of a diversity of such private actors/organizations ...
Non-Western Middle Powers in the Multipolar Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna Samir Kassab, Natalie Ann Ghosn
August 05, 2025
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
Edited
By Jonathan D. Rosen, Sebastián A. Cutrona
July 23, 2025
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 ...
Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics
1st Edition
By Qinyi Xu, Chuanjing Guan
June 30, 2025
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 ...
Australian Politics at a Crossroads: Prospects for Change
1st Edition
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By Matteo Bonotti, Narelle Miragliotta
June 27, 2025
As the 21st century proceeds apace, Australia faces new and old challenges, both domestically and internationally. These include managing complex governance issues, preventing democratic fracture, balancing an ever- shifting geopolitical strategic order, addressing the recognition and identity ...