Regional Powers and Contested Leadership

ISBN-13: 9783030088378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 348 str.

Hannes Ebert;Daniel Flemes

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Contested Leadership in the Emerging Order

Hannes Ebert and Daniel Flemes

Part I: Contested Leadership in South America

2. Brazil’s Strategic Leadership Gap: What comes after Emerging as a Power?

Sean Burges

3. Colombia: Contestation by Institution-Building?

Daniel Flemes and Rafael Castro

Part II: Contested Leadership in sub-Saharan Africa

4. South Africa As A Regional Power

Karen Smith

5. The Foreign Policy of Africa’s Secondary Powers: Do Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria Contest against South Africa?

Soeren Scholvin

Part III: Contested Leadership in East Asia

6. Contested Leadership of China in the Asia Pacific

Huiyun Feng and Kai He

7. Negotiating Chinese Initiative in Southeast Asia

Alice Ba

Part IV: Contested Leadership in South Asia

8. India’s Leadership in South Asia

Sumit Ganguly

9. Delusions of Parity: Pakistan’s Enduring Revisionism in a Nuclearized Rivalry

Nicolas Blarel and Hannes Ebert

Part V: Contested Leadership in Eurasia

10. Russia’s Leadership in Eurasia

Neil MacFarlane

11. Contestation toward Russia’s Leadership in Eurasia

Stefan Meister

12. Conclusion: Comparing Dynamics of Regional Power Politics

Hannes Ebert and Daniel Flemes

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

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.