In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others.
Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the'international pecking …

Building on the success of the first edition, this revised volume re-invigorates the
conversation between foreign policy analysis and international relations. It opens up the …

This article explores the prominent role that so-called middle powers have played in
constructing the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) as an innovative framework for …

Although the concept of regional power is frequently used in International Relations (IR)
literature, there is no consensus regarding the defining characteristics of a regional power …

This article seeks to develop a distinction between emerging and traditional middle powers
as a means to giving the concept of a middle power greater analytical clarity. All middle …

We develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social
dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on …

The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two
leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more …

This paper engages with debates over the Liberal International Order (LIO) and Latin
America by focusing on Brazil. More specifically, it addresses President Jair Bolsonaro's …

Canada's history of nation building, combined with its status as a so-called middle power in
international affairs, has been translated into an approach to global health that is focused on …

Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy
analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards …