Regional Powers and Contested Leadership

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-08837-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Responds to a growing demand for explanations of the relational dimension of rising regional powers’ strategies such as ‘leadership’ and ‘hegemony’ in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Eurasia, South, and East Asia
Provides an overview of power politics in which all the five BRICS member states are involved
Offers an in-depth discussions of both the dominant state’s power projection and the regional responses

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flemes, Daniel

Ebert, Hannes

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Contested Leadership in the Emerging Order.- 2. Brazil’s Strategic Leadership Gap: What comes after Emerging as a Power?.- 3. Colombia: Contestation by Institution-Building?.- 4. South Africa As A Regional Power.- 5. The Foreign Policy of Africa’s Secondary Powers: Do Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria Contest against South Africa?.- 6. Contested Leadership of China in the Asia Pacific.- 7. Negotiating Chinese Initiative in Southeast Asia.- 8. India’s Leadership in South Asia.- 9. Delusions of Parity: Pakistan’s Enduring Revisionism in a Nuclearized Rivalry.- 10. Russia’s Leadership in Eurasia.- 11. Contestation toward Russia’s Leadership in Eurasia.- 12. Conclusion: Comparing Dynamics of Regional Power Politics.

Über Autor(innen)

Hannes Ebert is Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.Daniel Flemes is Schumpeter Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.