Redefining Regional Power in International Relations : Indian and South African perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415616102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Miriam Prys

Opis

Regional power is often expected to have a positive influence on region specific problems of conflicts, economic deprivation and political instability. In reality, the behaviour and performance of regional powers with regard to these predominantly external expectations is rather mixed. Regional power behaviour frequently causes bemusement and disappointment among policy-makers and scholars. Variations in Regional Powers engages with and captures variations in regional powerhood, the better to understand related policy making and political behaviour. It makes a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to a typology of regional power, and demonstrates the comparative study of regional power in practice. Variations in Regional Power will be of interest to students and scholars of regionalism and international relations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Regions, Powers and Regional Powers  3. Regional Powers in International Politics: India and South Africa  4. South African Hegemony in Southern Africa  5. India as Regional Power in South Asia  6. Conclusion

O autorze

Miriam Prys is Lead Research Fellow and Academic Director of the GIGA Doctoral Program and the Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers, Hamburg, Germany