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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 117 |
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Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 117.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Cusp States' in international relations -- in praise of anomalies against the 'milieu'; 1 Geopolitical representation of Turkey's cuspness: discourse and practice; 2 From cusp to hub? How Turkey tried to instrumentalize its cuspness as an aspiring multi- regional middle power; 3 Ukraine as a Cusp State: the politics of reform in the borderland between the EU and Russia; 4 Iran as a Cusp State: the politics of dislocation |
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5 Israel's foreign policy towards the PLO and its location on the cusp: from coherence to incoherence?6 Straddling the region and the world: Brazil's dual foreign policy comes of age; 7 Between two regions: the scope and limits of Mexico's cuspness; 8 Regional governance and Japan as a Cusp State: whither spatial boundaries in East Asia?; 9 Taiwan as a cusp case: contrasting its people's democratic beliefs with those of the Chinese and Americans; Index |
| Summary |
This work seeks to develop a new concept with which to analyse the actions and activities of states that tend to be relatively ignored by the discipline of International Relations (IR). As a discipline, IR has a tendency to lean towards the analytically safe. Given the current and recent dynamism of the international system that is both surprising and undesirable. Arranged around the concept of the idea of the Cusp State (and cuspness more generally), the book consists of empirical analysis of eight different countries Brazil, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey and Ukraine, d |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Regionalism (International organization) -- Case studies
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Middle powers -- Case studies
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International relations -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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International relations
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Middle powers
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Regionalism (International organization)
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Herzog, Marc
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Robins, Philip
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| ISBN |
9781317666554 |
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1317666550 |
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