ISSN: 0020-5850, EISSN: 1468-2346
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Front Matter
Contributors
Unpacking the strategic dynamics of the Indo-Pacific
Understanding the dynamics of the Indo-Pacific: US–China strategic competition, regional actors, and beyond
Kai He, Mingjiang Li
The recalibration of Chinese assertiveness: China’s responses to the Indo-Pacific challenge
Feng Liu
Non-traditional security cooperation between China and south-east Asia: implications for Indo-Pacific geopolitics
Xue Gong
Japan’s ‘Indo-Pacific’ question: countering China or shaping a new regional order?
Kei Koga
Evasive balancing: India’s unviable Indo-Pacific strategy
Rajesh Rajagopalan
Is Australia’s Indo-Pacific strategy an illusion?
Brendan Taylor
Indonesia and the ASEAN outlook on the Indo-Pacific
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
Consigned to hedge: south-east Asia and America’s ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ strategy
See Seng Tan
Editor’s Choice
The institutionalization of the Indo-Pacific: problems and prospects
Kai He, Huiyun Feng
The Belt and Road Initiative: geo-economics and Indo-Pacific security competition
Mingjiang Li
Developmental peace in east Asia and its implications for the Indo-Pacific
Ling Wei
Literature Review
Where is the Anthropocene? IR in a new geological epoch
Dahlia Simangan
Book reviews
International history
The final act: the Helsinki Accords and the transformation of the Cold War
Herman T. Salton
The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company
Tim Willasey-Wilsey
Governance, law and ethics
Unravelling liberal interventionism: local critiques of statebuilding in Kosovo
Aidan Hehir
The revolution that wasn’t: how digital activism favors conservatives
Amy Kasper
Nationalizing sex: fertility, fear, and power
Kristen Ghodsee
Routledge international handbook of island studies: a world of islands
Sarina Theys
Conflict, security and defence
Comparative grand strategy: a framework and cases
William James
Aerial warfare: the battle for the skies
Andrew Dorman
Allies that count: junior partners in coalition warfare
Christopher Featherstone
Political economy, economics and development
Why not default? The political economy of sovereign debt
Carla Norrlof
Democracy and prosperity: reinventing capitalism through a turbulent century
Daniele Archibugi
Europe
Anglo nostalgia: the politics of emotion in a fractured West
Manni Crone
The Routledge handbook of Turkish politics
Tom Gallagher
The thirty-year genocide: Turkey’s destruction of its Christian minorities 1894–1924
Alex J. Bellamy
A twentieth-century crusade: the Vatican’s battle to remake Christian Europe
Cormac Shine
Before military intervention: upstream stabilisation in theory and practice
Andrew Rathmell
Russia and Eurasia
Webs of corruption: trafficking and terrorism in central Asia
Anja Mihr
Judgment in Moscow: Soviet crimes and western complicity
Victor Madeira
Middle East and North Africa
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria
Sam Biasi
South Asia
Modi and the reinvention of Indian foreign policy
Kate Sullivan de Estrada
The China–India rivalry in the globalization era
Kanti Bajpai
East Asia and Pacific
Peak Japan: the end of great ambitions
Nicole Freiner
China and intervention at the UN Security Council: reconciling status
Champa Patel
China’s digital nationalism
Biao Zhang
Making China modern: from the great Qing to Xi Jinping
Joel Campbell
North America
The last card: inside George W. Bush’s decision to surge in Iraq
Andrew Payne
Learning war: the evolution of fighting doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945
James J. Wirtz
Latin America and the Caribbean
Guatemala’s claim to Belize: the definitive history [international edition]Philip Chrimes
End Matter
Books reviewed January 2020