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Author : Hannes Ebert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319736914

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When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers? This book investigates how and why the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) project leadership in South America, post-Soviet Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, respectively, and in what ways their main regional challengers respond. Based on a systematic conceptualization of the types and drivers of leadership and contestation, the authors assess the impact of the rise of regional powers on weaker states’ security, sovereignty, and status, as well as the consequences of contestation for regional economic development and stability and the regional powers’ bid for greater voice in global governance. By illuminating the sources and effects of power politics in five regions that are increasingly pivotal for the emerging world order, the volume offers a global comparative analysis of contemporary regional contested leadership that will interest scholars and students of international affairs, foreign policy, and area studies.

Author : Daniel Flemes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317069072

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We assume that the ideas, interests and strategies of regional powers are highly significant variables, with the power to influence foreign policy. Yet while comparative research projects involving OECD-countries are fairly common, comparative research integrating developing regions is still rare, despite the fact that these countries are among the key actors of the twenty-first century. This collection emphasizes the role of regional powers in intra-regional, interregional and global contexts, analyzing the rise of regional powers from a comparative perspective. In so doing, the book explains how these powers have power to shape regional and global politics.

Author : Nadine Godehardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136718907

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Regional Powers and Regional Orders presents a re-examination and re-conceptualization of the concept of 'region' and its function within power and order systems. Utilising a comparative and case study approach, the volume examines 'new' regional powers such as Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. These territories as regional powers are novel phenomenon in the field of international politics and even more so in the field of international relations. The book focuses on the emerging role of these new regional powers within their respective region, and asks how other members of these regions cope with and react to that role. Regional Powers and Regional Orders will be of interest to students and scholars of international and regional politics and power, and international relations.

Author : Irina Busygina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000889971

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This book explores power in international relations, in a world characterized by the growing competition of major powers for smaller nations. Focusing on the major powers and smaller countries of Eurasia, it argues that power in international relations is different from coercion and is rather a social contract between a leader state and follower states where reciprocity is key and where leadership relationships cannot be adequately explained by focusing solely on the leader. It challenges the perception that genuine regional leadership is quite common, contending instead that it is rare; that much more often major powers make claims for leadership; and that regional leadership does not indicate the status of a particular state, but rather the social role of the leader, which is recognized by its followers, a role which is always relative and based on communication and constant interaction with followers. The book highlights the important role followers play in recognizing regional power, the importance for a state's regional leadership strategy in creating and holding a valuable position attractive for followers and delivering greater value to followers compared to other potential leaders.

Author : Seçkin Köstem
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :

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"There has recently been a proliferation in studies on regionalism and regional powers. Yet little has been done to explore the role that regional powers play in fostering economic integration in their regions. In particular, two questions have been unexplored. First, why do the regional economic priorities of regional powers shift over time? Also, why do regional powers pursue different forms of leadership to exert economic influence over their neighbors? This dissertation speaks to a broad audience in the field of International Relations, including IPE, regional powers, Russian foreign policy and Turkish foreign policy. It contributes to the ongoing debate on regional powers and economic orientation by highlighting the ideational roots of the economic leadership strategies of Russia and Turkey. I argue that objective economic/material factors cannot explain the foreign economic strategies of these two countries. Instead, it is elite national identity conceptions that primarily construct and define economic interests. National identity conceptions are elite understandings of the state's historically appropriate roles and purposes in its region and the world. I demonstrate that from the 1990s to the 2000s, both Turkey and Russia changed the geographic orientations and forms of their regional foreign economic strategies in response to the changing national identity conceptions of their ruling elites. I argue that the shifting national identity conception in Russia from a Westernizing one under Yeltsin's presidency to a great power nationalist one under Putin's leadership led to a geographic reorientation of Russia's foreign economic policies from the West to the post-Soviet region. While the Westernizers of the 1990s wanted integration into Western economic structures, great power nationalists have prioritized integration in Eurasia. Similarly, I investigate why Turkish decision-makers of the 1990s pursued economic integration with the European Union and closer economic ties with the post-Soviet states, while economic integration with the Middle East has become a priority under Erdoğan's JDP. I argue that this occurred because the JDP's conservative national identity conception embraced the Muslim Middle East, in contrast to the traditionally Western oriented and Kemalist national identity conception of the 1990s. In terms of the form of foreign economic policies, I argue that Putin and his allies' great power nationalist identity conception has resulted in a hegemonic and coercive form of regional leadership towards establishing the Eurasian Economic Union. Conversely, the JDP's conservative national identity conception has made Turkey a liberal economic leader in the Middle East. I show that in both Russia and Turkey, current ruling elites determined the direction and form of economic policies in opposition to the previously prevalent national identity conceptions. The variation in the form of foreign economic policies of Russia and Turkey, therefore, is rooted in elite national identity contestation at home. In both countries the process of the consolidation of political power at home constituted a critical juncture in that it eliminated the influence of alternative national identity conceptions and reinforced formerly set foreign economic goals. Similarly, both Russia's great power nationalists and Turkey's conservatives saw the global financial crisis of 2008-09 as a great opportunity to increase their economic influence in their neighborhoods." --

Author : Belinda Helmke
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9781282535596

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Helmke explores whether we are merely witnessing a temporary and insignificant challenge to international law or whether the rules are genuinely under attack

Author : Daniel Flemes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317069064

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We assume that the ideas, interests and strategies of regional powers are highly significant variables, with the power to influence foreign policy. Yet while comparative research projects involving OECD-countries are fairly common, comparative research integrating developing regions is still rare, despite the fact that these countries are among the key actors of the twenty-first century. This collection emphasizes the role of regional powers in intra-regional, interregional and global contexts, analyzing the rise of regional powers from a comparative perspective. In so doing, the book explains how these powers have power to shape regional and global politics.

Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317565940

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Regional powers such as India, Brazil and South Africa, pose a challenge to the global order, but it is not always clear what that challenge is. This edited volume identifies the global redistribution of material, institutional, and symbolic resources as fundamental goals of these states. It also assesses their domestic capacities and global strategies and tactics to achieve these goals. REVISED BLURB TO FOLLOW

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442226412

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As the world's most dynamic region, Asia embodies explosive economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, rich cultural traditions amid globalization, and strategic competition among major powers. As a result, international relations in Asia are evolving rapidly. In this fully updated and expanded volume, leading scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America offer the most current and definitive analysis available of Asia's regional relationships. They set developments in Asia in theoretical context, assess the role of leading external and regional powers, and consider the importance of subregional actors and linkages. Combining interpretive richness and factual depth, their essays provide an authoritative and stimulating overview. Students of contemporary Asian affairs—new to the field and old hands alike—will find this book an invaluable read. Contributions by: Amitav Acharya, Sebastian Bersick, Nayan Chanda, Ralph A. Cossa, Michael Green, Samuel S. Kim, Edward J. Lincoln, Martha Brill Olcott, T.V. Paul, Phillip C. Saunders, David Shambaugh, Sheldon W. Simon, Scott Snyder, Robert Sutter, Hugh White, and Michael Yahuda

Author : Maria Raquel Freire
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030929973

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This book contributes to the literature on the EU’s role in the international system by engaging with the debates on global actorness and mapping new conceptual and theoretical avenues to better understand how agency and power are exerted at the global and regional levels, in a context of increased contestation of the international liberal order. Organised around three main lines, the book first looks at how the EU positions itself internationally in different policy areas, providing a multi-dimensional reading of EU policies, instruments, and practices; secondly, it engages with the EU’s own perspective toward its regional contexts and with the perspectives of regional actors on the EU; and, thirdly, it explores non-European perspectives on EU actorness, as the way the EU is perceived by others in this system of contested leadership is central to how it is understood in terms of policies, instruments, and overall capability to lead and act as a global power.