1st Edition

Rising Powers and State Transformation

Edited By Shahar Hameiri, Lee Jones, John Heathershaw Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Reframing the rising powers debate: state transformation and foreign policy

Shahar Hameiri, Lee Jones and John Heathershaw

1. Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis

Lee Jones and Jinghan Zeng

2. Centred discourse, decentred practice: the relational production of Russian and Chinese ‘rising’ power in Central Asia

John Heathershaw, Catherine Owen and Alexander Cooley

3. State transformation goes nuclear: Chinese National Nuclear Companies’ expansion into Europe

Biao Zhang

4. Coordination and control in Russia’s foreign policy: travails of Putin’s curators in the near abroad

Daria Isachenko

5. Peacebuilding think tanks, Indian foreign policy and the Kashmir conflict

Stuti Bhatnagar and Priya Chacko

6. Can constituent states influence foreign and security policy? Coalitional dynamics in India

Madhan Mohan Jaganathan

7. From centralisation to fragmentation and back again: the role of non-state actors in Brazil’s transformed foreign policy

Daniel Cardoso

8. State transformation and cross-border regionalism in Indonesia’s periphery: contesting the centre

Moch Faisal Karim

9. Beyond royal politics: state transformation and foreign policy in Saudi Arabia

Babak Mohammadzadeh

Biography

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.