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...

This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe.

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...

This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations. The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union into new cooperation with Africa and Asia. These inter-regional relations have taken on new dimensions in the context of contemporary international politics framed by new security challenges, and new competitive forces particularly from Asia. This book provides both conceptual and empirical arguments to...