Overview
Responds to a growing demand for explanations of the relational dimension of rising regional powers’ strategies such as ‘leadership’ and ‘hegemony’ in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Eurasia, South, and East Asia
Provides an overview of power politics in which all the five BRICS member states are involved
Offers an in-depth discussions of both the dominant state’s power projection and the regional responses
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Contested Leadership in South America
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Contested Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Contested Leadership in East Asia
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Contested Leadership in South Asia
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Contested Leadership in Post-Soviet Eurasia
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Reviews
“Ebert and Flemes ask all the right questions about the goals of rising regional and the responses of other states to them. They find that structural explanations do not take them far and do a good job of turning to ideas, leadership, and domestic politics to explain the variation. A must read for any student or practitioner of international relations.” (Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory, King’s College London and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College)
“This volume is an excellent addition to the literature, combining a sophisticated appreciation of power transition with nuanced knowledge concerning the impact of these changing dynamics on regional interactions. Through their mobilization of such a rich collection of case studies, Ebert and Flemes deserve full credit for taking seriously the role of secondary-state responses to rising powers. Although commonly viewed as passive followers, with little autonomous agency, these secondary powers are revealed to possess a wide range of strategies- and forms of contestation – in their relationship to the BRICS. Such a countervailing and ambitious cross-regional collection deserves a wide readership.” (Andrew F. Cooper, Professor, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, and Associate Research Fellow-UNU CRIS (Institute on Comparative Regional Integration), Bruges, Belgium)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Flemes is Schumpeter Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regional Powers and Contested Leadership
Editors: Hannes Ebert, Daniel Flemes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73691-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73690-7Published: 03 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08837-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73691-4Published: 19 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 348
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Political Leadership, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, Globalization, Regionalism