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.
Post-Cold War Predictions: Politicism in Practice
1st Edition
By Hanna Samir Kassab
June 27, 2025
Post- Cold War Predictions examines how the international order evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union (and before the attacks on 9/11) by focusing on the ways we study and understand major powers’ security behavior within the evolving multipolar order. Beginning with an overview of ...
Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War: A Theory of Armed Emergence
1st Edition
By Dylan Motin
June 20, 2025
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 ...
100 Years of Turkish-Japanese Relations: From History to Economy, Culture to Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Hasan Topaçoğlu
June 06, 2025
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 ...
Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime: 1958-1968
1st Edition
Edited
By Pascal Lottaz, Yoko Iwama
April 14, 2025
Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty’s opening for signatures ten years ...
Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America: Explaining Theoretical Puzzles and Policy Continuities
1st Edition
Edited
By Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, Diego Zambrano
April 14, 2025
Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America elucidates why many state actors in the Global South exhibit a remarkable degree of policy continuity in their external behavior despite structural incentives for change. This book contends that the theoretical notion of strategic culture is instructive to ...
Brazilian Agricultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century: A Public – Private Partnership
1st Edition
By Niels Søndergaard
April 14, 2025
Brazil’s growing dependence on agriculture has positioned agribusiness in a uniquely privileged position to influence Brazilian foreign policy. Brazilian Agricultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century examines how the inclusion of domestic “national champions” in foreign policy has shaped events within...
Europeanisation and Eurasianism in Turkey and Ukraine: Balancing between Integration and Autonomy
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucie Tungul
March 27, 2025
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, ...
Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands: Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, James Batley, Anna Powles
March 20, 2025
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. ...
Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence: How Journalists Survive and Resist
1st Edition
By Tamsin S. Mitchell
March 18, 2025
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 ...
Technology Transfer to Latin American Countries: Drifting Away from the United States and China?
1st Edition
By Sascha Hannig Núñez
March 12, 2025
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 ...
Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights: When Federalism Came to Life
1st Edition
By Clara Eugenia Franco Yáñez
March 07, 2025
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 ...
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship: Evidence from the Caribbean
1st Edition
By Yonique Campbell, Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers
January 30, 2025
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean. Using empirical and secondary data and drawing on feminist theoretical insights, Yonique ...