Rising Powers and State Transformation

Taylor & Francis

Rising Powers and State TransformationAuthor(s): Shahar Hameiri, Lee Jones, John Heathershaw\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367895877, 978-0367895877\nSynopsis\nRising 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.\n\nThe volume breaks with the prevalent tendency in International Relations (IR) scholarship to treat rising powers as unitary actors in international politics. Although a neat demarcation of the domestic and international domains, on which the notion of unitary agency is premised, has always been a myth, these states uneven integration into the global political economy has eroded this perspectives empirical purchase considerably. Instead, this volume employs the concept of state transf.