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.
Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations in an Era of Great Power Rivalry: Navigating Rising Tensions and Strategic Ambiguity
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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...
Political Realism: An Evolutionary Theory of International Relations
1st Edition
By W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
April 13, 2026
Political Realism: An Evolutionary Theory of International Relations offers a bold reinterpretation of realist international relations (IR) theory that considers human evolution. It introduces five fundamental concepts (a realist core), twenty-four original laws of realism and normative visions of ...
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East: In Pursuit of Hegemony
1st Edition
By Leila Nicolas
January 30, 2026
Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers. The book adds new aspects to the extensive literature on grand ...
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 21, 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 ...