Given the increasing presence of non-Western nations in global affairs, Hiroki Kusano and Hiro Katsumata explore responses to the backlash taking place in the West against the global spread of liberalism — to the global spread of free trade, multilateral institutions, and liberal-democratic politics.

With a range of case studies from every continent, the contributors to this book analyse the challenges that arise for states living with much larger neighbors, and the policies they develop to account for this asymmetry.

In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework which explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system.

Contributors from Japan, Korea and China explore the reaction of the United Nations to emerging global issues.
A collaboration between the Japanese Association for United Nations Studies with the Korea Academic Council on the United Nations System and the China Academic Net for United Nations Studies, this book presents a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. The areas explored and discussed include global governance, peace and security, global health governance, global citizenship, nuclear disarmament, and the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular-and among...

Security and Safety in the Era of Global Risks provides a forum for a robust theoretical and policy debate to unlock new perspectives on risk and conflict plaguing humanity today, and explores innovative approaches to address them in a more peaceful, people-centred and sustainable way.

Through an analysis of the many peripheries of the international system where power dynamics are most apparent, this edited volume provides one of the most formidable critical inquiries into public diplomacy’s relationship with hegemony, morality and power

The regional trade governance architecture is in flux. The latest wave of regionalism in the form of mega-regional trade partnerships between countries with major shares of the world economy occurred in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. The most systematically important mega-FTAs included the Trans-Pacific Partnership led by the United States (US), the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union (EU) and the US.
Drawing on policy diffusion and competitive regionalism...

This book examines the state identity formation and international legitimation of de facto states to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between de facto states, the international state system and international society.

This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest’s resilience.

Chen demonstrates how the pursuit of foreign policy independence repeatedly placed the Whitlam Government in a position wedged in between Australia’s traditional allies and the Third World; and how it navigated Australia’s national interests on a series of dilemma situations.