Regional Powers and Contested Leadership (eBook)

Hannes Ebert, Daniel Flemes (Herausgeber)

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2018
XV, 348 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-73691-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Contested Leadership in the Emerging OrderHannes Ebert and Daniel FlemesPart I: Contested Leadership in South America2. Brazil’s Strategic Leadership Gap: What comes after Emerging as a Power?Sean Burges3. Colombia: Contestation by Institution-Building?Daniel Flemes and Rafael CastroPart II: Contested Leadership in sub-Saharan Africa4. South Africa As A Regional PowerKaren Smith5. The Foreign Policy of Africa’s Secondary Powers: Do Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria Contest against South Africa?Soeren ScholvinPart III: Contested Leadership in East Asia6. Contested Leadership of China in the Asia PacificHuiyun Feng and Kai He7. Negotiating Chinese Initiative in Southeast AsiaAlice BaPart IV: Contested Leadership in South Asia8. India’s Leadership in South AsiaSumit Ganguly9. Delusions of Parity: Pakistan’s Enduring Revisionism in a Nuclearized RivalryNicolas Blarel and Hannes EbertPart V: Contested Leadership in Eurasia10. Russia’s Leadership in EurasiaNeil MacFarlane11. Contestation toward Russia’s Leadership in EurasiaStefan Meister12. Conclusion: Comparing Dynamics of Regional Power PoliticsHannes Ebert and Daniel Flemes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 348 p. 2 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: BRICs • contemporary power shifts in global politics • Leadership and Emerging Powers • regional leadership • rising regional powers • United Nations Security Council membership
• ISBN-10: 3-319-73691-4 / 3319736914
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-73691-4 / 9783319736914