Rising Powers and State Transformation (ThirdWorlds) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367895870 ISBN 13: 9780367895877

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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.

The volume breaks with the prevalent tendency in International Relations (IR) scholarship to treat rising powers as unitary actors in international politics. Although a neat demarcation of the domestic and international domains, on which the notion of unitary agency is premised, has always been a myth, these states’ uneven integration into the global political economy has eroded this perspective’s empirical purchase considerably. Instead, this volume employs the concept of ‘state transformation’ as a lens through which to examine rising power states’ foreign policymaking and implementation. State transformation refers to the pluralisation of cross-border state agency via contested and uneven processes of fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of state apparatuses. The volume demonstrates the significance of state transformation processes for explaining some of these states’ key foreign policy agendas, and outlines the implications for the wider field in IR.

With chapters dedicated to all of today’s most important rising power states, Rising Powers and State Transformation will be of great interest to scholars of IR, international politics and foreign policy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

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About the Author

Shahar Hameiri is Associate Professor of International Politics in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.

Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.

John Heathershaw is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics, University of Exeter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367895870
• ISBN 13: 9780367895877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Hameiri Shahar, Jones Lee, Heathershaw John