Marc Herzog is Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, Turkey. Philip Robinsis Faculty Fellow and University Reader in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction, ‘Cusp States’ in International Relations: In Praise of Anomalies Against the ‘Milieu’ , Philip Robins 1. Geographical Representation of Turkey’s Cuspness: Discourse and Practice, Meliha Benli Altunışık 2. From Cusp to Hub? How Turkey tried to instrumentalize its ‘cuspness’ as an aspiring multi-regional middle power, Marc Herzog 3. Ukraine as a Cusp State: The Politics of Reform in the Borderland between EU and Russia, Oktay Tanrısever 4. Iran as a Cusp State: The Politics of Dislocation, Derya Akder Göçer 5. Israel’s foreign policy towards the PLO and its location on the cusp: From coherence to incoherence? Amnon Aran 6. Straddling the Region and the World: Brazil’s dual foreign policy comes of Age, Andrés Malamud; Júlio César Cossio Rodriguez 7. Between Two Regions: The scope and limits of Mexico’s cuspness, Mónica Serrano 8. Regional Governance and Japan as a Cusp State: Whither spatial boundaries in East Asia? Glenn Hook 9. Taiwan as a Cusp Case: Contrasting Its People’s Democratic Beliefs with Those of the Chinese and Americans, Steve Chan

Marc Herzog is Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, Turkey. Philip Robinsis Faculty Fellow and University Reader in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction, ‘Cusp States’ in International Relations: In Praise of Anomalies Against the ‘Milieu’ , Philip Robins 1. Geographical Representation of Turkey’s Cuspness: Discourse and Practice, Meliha Benli Altunışık 2. From Cusp to Hub? How Turkey tried to instrumentalize its ‘cuspness’ as an aspiring multi-regional middle power, Marc Herzog 3. Ukraine as a Cusp State: The Politics of Reform in the Borderland between EU and Russia, Oktay Tanrısever 4. Iran as a Cusp State: The Politics of Dislocation, Derya Akder Göçer 5. Israel’s foreign policy towards the PLO and its location on the cusp: From coherence to incoherence? Amnon Aran 6. Straddling the Region and the World: Brazil’s dual foreign policy comes of Age, Andrés Malamud; Júlio César Cossio Rodriguez 7. Between Two Regions: The scope and limits of Mexico’s cuspness, Mónica Serrano 8. Regional Governance and Japan as a Cusp State: Whither spatial boundaries in East Asia? Glenn Hook 9. Taiwan as a Cusp Case: Contrasting Its People’s Democratic Beliefs with Those of the Chinese and Americans, Steve Chan

Marc Herzog is Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, Turkey. Philip Robinsis Faculty Fellow and University Reader in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction, ‘Cusp States’ in International Relations: In Praise of Anomalies Against the ‘Milieu’ , Philip Robins 1. Geographical Representation of Turkey’s Cuspness: Discourse and Practice, Meliha Benli Altunışık 2. From Cusp to Hub? How Turkey tried to instrumentalize its ‘cuspness’ as an aspiring multi-regional middle power, Marc Herzog 3. Ukraine as a Cusp State: The Politics of Reform in the Borderland between EU and Russia, Oktay Tanrısever 4. Iran as a Cusp State: The Politics of Dislocation, Derya Akder Göçer 5. Israel’s foreign policy towards the PLO and its location on the cusp: From coherence to incoherence? Amnon Aran 6. Straddling the Region and the World: Brazil’s dual foreign policy comes of Age, Andrés Malamud; Júlio César Cossio Rodriguez 7. Between Two Regions: The scope and limits of Mexico’s cuspness, Mónica Serrano 8. Regional Governance and Japan as a Cusp State: Whither spatial boundaries in East Asia? Glenn Hook 9. Taiwan as a Cusp Case: Contrasting Its People’s Democratic Beliefs with Those of the Chinese and Americans, Steve Chan