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; Ukraine, defined as ‘states that lie uneasily on the political and/or normative edge of what is widely believed to be an established region’. By focusing on the importance of comparing groups of states, like states with high degrees of ‘cuspness’, this book argues that it is possible to categorise the world in a fresher and more original way, and one which covers more of the globe than either a systemic or regionalist approach would do.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Geopolitics, International Security and Regionalism.
Marc Herzog is the Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, Turkey.
Philip Robins
is a Faculty Fellow and University Reader in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, UK.外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
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