Rising Powers and State Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367895877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 198 str.

Shahar Hameiri; Lee Jones; John Heathershaw

Opis

Rising Powers and State Transformation advances the concept of ‘state transformation’ as a useful lens through which to examine rising power states’ foreign policymaking and implementation, with chapters dedicated to China, Russia, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Reframing the rising powers debate: state transformation and foreign policy Shahar Hameiri, Lee Jones and John Heathershaw 1. Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis Lee Jones and Jinghan Zeng 2. Centred discourse, decentred practice: the relational production of Russian and Chinese ‘rising’ power in Central Asia John Heathershaw, Catherine Owen and Alexander Cooley 3. State transformation goes nuclear: Chinese National Nuclear Companies’ expansion into Europe Biao Zhang 4. Coordination and control in Russia’s foreign policy: travails of Putin’s curators in the near abroad Daria Isachenko 5. Peacebuilding think tanks, Indian foreign policy and the Kashmir conflict Stuti Bhatnagar and Priya Chacko 6. Can constituent states influence foreign and security policy? Coalitional dynamics in India Madhan Mohan Jaganathan 7. From centralisation to fragmentation and back again: the role of non-state actors in Brazil’s transformed foreign policy Daniel Cardoso 8. State transformation and cross-border regionalism in Indonesia’s periphery: contesting the centre Moch Faisal Karim 9. Beyond royal politics: state transformation and foreign policy in Saudi Arabia Babak Mohammadzadeh