The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations

This work seeks to develop new concepts with which to analyse the actions and activities of states, especially those that tend to be relatively ignored by the established literature. It is based on the premise that IR is an often conservative discipline, focused on typical and standard experiences and is less effective at identifying and analysing states where the state experience and/or predicament are unusual or atypical. It is with the latter that this volume is self-consciously preoccupied.