A reconceptualization of the concept of 'region' and its function within power and order systems.
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 regions cope with and react to that role.
Regional Powers and Regional Orders will be of interest to students and scholars of international and regional politics and power, and international relations.
1. Introduction Nadine Godehardt and Dirk Nabers Part 1: New Theoretical
Concepts in the Study of Regional Orders and Regional Powers
2. Creating
International Regions: The Spatial Expression of Power Karoline PostelVinay
3. The Power of Ideas in International Relations David MacDonald
4. Regional
Powers and Regional Governance Detlef Nolte
5. On the Economics of Regional
Powers: Theory and Empirical Results Robert Kappel Part 2: Regional Powers
and Their Neighbourhood
6. The European Union as a Regional Power AnneMarie
Le Gloannec
7. China and the Definition of the Asian Region Nadine Godehardt
8. Roles and Actions of Leadership: Brazil and the South American Others
Leslie Wehner
9. Regional Leadership? Understanding Power and Transformation
in the Middle East Louise Fawcett Part 3: Regional Powers and the Global
Power Distribution
10. The Omnipower: The United States and Regional Orders
Jeffrey Legro
11. Pakistan: Regional Power, Global Problem? Rajesh
Rajagopalan
12. A Fine and Delicate Balance : South Africas Middle Power
Complexities, 19942009 Janis van der Westhuizen
13. Israel: Extra-Regional
Foundations of a Regional Power Manqué Mark A. Heller
14. Conclusion Nadine
Godehardt and Dirk Nabers
Nadine Godehardt holds an MA in Political Science, Philosophy and Modern Chinese from the University of Tuebingen. Since 2008, she is a Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and writing her dissertation about Chinas role in the Central Asian regional order.
Dirk Nabers is a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. At GIGA, he is the Head of the Research Programme on Power, Norms and Governance in International Relations and Academic Director of the Hamburg International Graduate School Regional Power Shifts and Global Order. His main research interests include Poststructuralism in International Relations, Security Policy, Comparative Regionalism and the study of Regional Powers.
