In recent years, scholars have devoted increased attention to the agency of small states in
International Relations. However, the conventional wisdom remains that while not …

Small states are crucial actors in world politics. They attract outsized attention from great
powers, populate international organizations, and shape international norms. Despite that …

Much time and enormous amount of academic effort has gone into defining small states and
their position in world politics. This endeavor, sadly, has produced very little agreement. It is …

As one of the key concepts in International Relations (IR), the relative amnesia around the
origin and effects of sovereignty which lasted until the mid-1990s is quite striking …

Contrary to common assumptions that the liberal world order was 'made in the West', this
article argues that it was produced in interaction with Pan-African ideology and actors …

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature of international relations, providing a
thorough, up-to-date, empirically supported, and theoretically grounded analysis of how and …

Abstract The United States–China relationship is more likely than not to slide into economic
and military competition, despite the perhaps best intentions of both states. This new bipolar …

There is a growing scholarly consensus that Latin American regionalism has entered a new
phase. For some observers, the increasing complexity of regional cooperation initiatives …

Recent debates about challenges to the liberal international order (LIO) have led
International Relations (IR) scholars, both those critical and supportive of the concept, to …

How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is,
whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they …