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.
Europeanisation and Eurasianism in Turkey and Ukraine: Balancing between Integration and Autonomy
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By Lucie Tungul
July 20, 2026
This book analyses the impact of external actors, primarily the European Union (EU) and Russia, on democratisation and authoritarian tendencies in Ukraine and Turkey. The war in Ukraine will continue to affect patterns of cooperation and confrontation in the Black Sea region for years to come, ...
Technology Transfer to Latin American Countries: Drifting Away from the United States and China?
1st Edition
By Sascha Hannig Núñez
July 20, 2026
Hannig Núñez analyzes the processes behind technology transfers at a state-decision-making level in Latin America. She challenges the conventional notion that the United States and China hold a dominant technological presence over the region, highlighting the increasing influence from both middle ...
Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence: How Journalists Survive and Resist
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By Tamsin S. Mitchell
July 19, 2026
Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence is a qualitative, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of journalists’ responses to impunity for anti-press violence in two Latin American partial democracies, Mexico and Honduras. It is the first book-length analysis of the security and ...
Caribbean Network Diplomacy: Addressing Global Challenges through Regional Collaboration
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By Candia James
July 07, 2026
Caribbean Network Diplomacy: Addressing Global Challenges through Regional Collaboration analyses how Caribbean small states use communication networks, regional institutions, and collaborative coalitions to exercise diplomatic influence in an increasingly complex global system. This book advances ...
Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights: When Federalism Came to Life
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By Clara Eugenia Franco Yáñez
June 22, 2026
Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights presents the recent evolution of abortion laws in Mexico (2007–2021) and how advocates have shaped them through human rights discourses, challenging social norms. Utilizing extended expert interviews, it offers a uniquely deep dive ...
Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands: Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork
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By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, James Batley, Anna Powles
June 22, 2026
Wallis, McNeill, Batley, Powles and the contributors examine the dynamics of Pacific Islands’ security cooperation, analysing how it helps address regional security challenges amid the broader strategic competition between China and the United States that is increasingly playing out in the region. ...
The Australian Liberal Party: Volume 1: Ideas, History and Organisation
1st Edition
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By Zareh Ghazarian, Marija Taflaga, Matteo Bonotti
June 10, 2026
This book is part of a two-part volume on the Liberal Party of Australia edited by Zareh Ghazarian, Matteo Bonotti, and Marija Taflaga. This volume contributes to the understanding of political parties, especially the sub-discipline of Australian politics. Australia remains one of the oldest ...
Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations in an Era of Great Power Rivalry: Navigating Rising Tensions and Strategic Ambiguity
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By Dongtao Qi
May 29, 2026
Qi provides a comprehensive exploration of the complex and evolving dynamics in and between Taiwan, China, and the United States from 2016 to 2024. Through three unique analytical perspectives – Movement Government and Movement Society, Cross-Strait Relations Trio, and Strategic Ambiguity – these ...
Anti-biopolitics of Security: Gender-based Violence in Mexico
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By R. Guy Emerson
May 27, 2026
Anti-biopolitics of Security: Gender-based Violence in Mexico concerns a politics of life and security in contemporary Mexico. It plots the formation of a violent event, how its deadly circulations strike the body and how the subject emerges amid these connectivities at once corporeal and material....
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness
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By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, Alan Tidwell
May 22, 2026
This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region, it provides ‘both sides of the story’ of statecraft ...
US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing: West Europe and East Asia during and after the Cold War
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By Nobuki Kawasaki, Takeshi Sakade, Hubert Zimmermann
May 22, 2026
Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the United States (US) and its allies after World War II, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia. Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume identify ...
Mexico-China Relations: Cultural Encounters in a Global Age
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By Francisco Antonio-Alfonso
May 21, 2026
This book analyses contemporary Mexico-China relations as a complex cultural encounter. Through an unprecedented analysis of the discursive production of a series of diplomatic, media and academic sources, this book demonstrates how, embedded in the great technological and political transformations...