International relations

This book provides a critical analysis of how credit rating agencies engage with the political and economic dynamics of developing countries.

“Allies in Arms: Turkish-American Defense Relations” offers an examination of the strategic evolution of military cooperation between the United States and Turkey, with a particular focus on the aerospace and defense industry.

This book explores the international ordering visions of key global and regional powers in the international system from 2014 onwards.

China’s Blueprint for Global Leadership offers the first comprehensive academic analysis of China’s Three Major Initiatives—the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI)—launched between 2021 and 2023.

This book explores how WhatsApp is transforming multilateral diplomacy.

The term “transnational organised crime” has been used to describe different realities, depending on the specific category of crime and region of the world concerned.

This book examines the role and impact of European Union (EU) agencies in the areas of justice and home affairs, common foreign and security policy, and common security and defense policy.

Aunque nos sintamos felizmente lejos de los conflictos armados de otras latitudes, en América Latina se está librando una verdadera guerra.

This book explores the international ordering visions of key global and regional powers in the international system from 2014 onwards.

This timely study considers the challenges of developing a foreign policy for a union of 27 states while taking national political processes into account.

In recent years, scholars of International Relations have increasingly turned their attention to the question of how to decolonize knowledge.

“Allies in Arms: Turkish-American Defense Relations” offers an examination of the strategic evolution of military cooperation between the United States and Turkey, with a particular focus on the aerospace and defense industry.

This illuminating volume critically surveys the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific.

The term “transnational organised crime” has been used to describe different realities, depending on the specific category of crime and region of the world concerned.

Religious resurgence and democratization have been two of the most significant developments of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

For centuries, negotiation has shaped the course of history—from the secret talks that ended wars to the quiet conversations that ignited revolutions.

This book analyzes the challenges of North Korea's nuclear threat today and the shortcomings of nuclear defense theory.

International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century.

In recent years, scholars of International Relations have increasingly turned their attention to the question of how to decolonize knowledge.

This book analyzes the challenges of North Korea's nuclear threat today and the shortcomings of nuclear defense theory.

As China’s flagship platform for cultural diplomacy and international engagement, the global expansion of Confucius Institutes has been accompanied by growing controversy—particularly in the West.

China’s Blueprint for Global Leadership offers the first comprehensive academic analysis of China’s Three Major Initiatives—the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI)—launched between 2021 and 2023.

This illuminating volume critically surveys the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific.

This book explores how WhatsApp is transforming multilateral diplomacy.

For centuries, negotiation has shaped the course of history—from the secret talks that ended wars to the quiet conversations that ignited revolutions.

This book explores the significant yet understudied role of non-state actors (NSAs) as agents of disruption and dissent in public diplomacy.

This timely study considers the challenges of developing a foreign policy for a union of 27 states while taking national political processes into account.

International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century.

Routledge Handbook on Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa provides a comprehensive and multidimensional exploration of civil society across the MENA region, tracing its historical emergence, diverse expressions, and contemporary transformations.

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the distinctive theoretical approaches, fundamental issues and key actors that are central to the contemporary field of environmental security studies.

First published in 1987, Politics, Security and Development in Small States analyses the crisis facing small states in the international political system at the time.

Originally published in 1973, Theory and World Politics provides a penetrating and lucid treatment of the possibilities and applications of the important contemporary approaches to international relations at the time.

This book studies the ethnic tensions in Pakistan and their repercussions on its territorial integrity and stability of the multi-ethnic and pivotal state -located at the trijunction of South Asia, South-West Asia and Central Asia.

This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations.

The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse.

This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries about the East and South China Sea disputes.

Prompted by increasing evidence of the world's shift to the right, not least among the industrialised nations, here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor from the post-war crop of European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies.

Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven.

A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly.

The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse.

Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control examines the Kashmir dispute from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and within the theoretical frame of border studies.

In recent decades, ties between Africa and Asia have greatly increased.

What is Europe?

The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders.

Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia.

Japan has risen in stature to become an important player not only in the Western Pacific, but the wider Indo-Pacific.

The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time.

Public diplomacy enables private citizens to be involved in international relations either through initiatives sponsored by governments or through direct people-to-people contacts in areas such as culture, business, education, tourism and sport.

"e;This book offers an account of the life of Shibusawa Eiichi, who may be considered the first 'internationalist' in modern Japan, written by his great grandson Masahide and published in 1970 under the title, Taiheiyo ni kakeru hashi (Building Bridges Over the Pacific).

The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time.