{"product_id":"the-role-position-and-agency-marc-herzog-9780415707176","title":"The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Geopolitics, International Security and Regionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Herzog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041570717X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415707176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Marc Herzog","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086646194431,"sku":"9780415707176","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8fb0e5d3-cef7-4394-9c66-413ab41d14ca.jpg?v=1769095792","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-role-position-and-agency-marc-herzog-9780415707176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}