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This book offers the first relational theory of International Relations (IR). By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing.

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This book offers the first relational theory of International Relations (IR). By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing.

This theoretical study focuses on the normative powers of the EU, China, and India in the context of their security governance strategies in Central Asia.

Looking at the order-promoting processes of both the EU and Nato, this work offers a detailed comparative analysis of the role played by external actors in the Balkan region as a whole. In doing so, it provides an insight into the processes of peace-promotion in general, and the patterns of security-community-building in the Balkans in particular.

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Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics.

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At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread, today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach. This volume examines Chinese international relations thought and practices, identifying the extent to which China's rise has provoked fresh geo-strategic and intellectual shifts within Asia.

At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread, today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach. This volume examines Chinese international relations thought and practices, identifying the extent to which China's rise has provoked fresh geo-strategic and intellectual shifts within Asia.

This timely volume analyses the quality of statehood in Central Asia by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization in the region - thus bringing Central Asia into the mainstream of systematic interrogation.

Addressing the need to 're-Orient' the research and policy agenda of international relations, this volume examines the prominent role of China in global politics and the relevance of the 'new regionalism' paradigm to China's international outreach.

This comparative volume looks at the track record of several defunct federalisms to identify options that have been overlooked and decisions that precipitated the collapse. Bringing together insights from the study of state failure and federal collapse, it examines the ways in which parallel assessment is crucial for suggesting the complex structures of identity accommodation in federal entities.

This book focuses on Central Asia's place in world affairs and how international politics of state-building has affected the Asian region, thus filling the gaps in ongoing discussions on the rise of Asia in global governance. It also attempts to generalize and contextualize the "Central Asian experience" and re-evaluate its comparative relevance, by explaining the complex dynamics of Central Asian politics through a detailed analysis of the ef...

India's role in global politics draws increasing attention from the international community. Unprecedented economic growth in the recent past, rising fundamentalism in national politics and the knife-edge of nuclear-fuelled tension with an unstable Islamic government in Pakistan are all bound up in Indian claims to geopolitical ascendance. At the same time, Central Asia has re-emerged as a site of international contestation or a "new Great Gam...