Regional Powers and Contested Leadership

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Contested Leadership in the Emerging Order.- 2. Brazil's Strategic Leadership Gap: What comes after Emerging as a Power?.- 3. Colombia: Contestation by Institution-Building?.- 4. South Africa As A Regional Power.- 5. The Foreign Policy of Africa's Secondary Powers: Do Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria Contest against South Africa?.- 6. Contested Leadership of China in the Asia Pacific.- 7. Negotiating Chinese Initiative in Southeast Asia.- 8. India's Leadership in South Asia.- 9. Delusions of Parity: Pakistan's Enduring Revisionism in a Nuclearized Rivalry.- 10. Russia's Leadership in Eurasia.- 11. Contestation toward Russia's Leadership in Eurasia.- 12. Conclusion: Comparing Dynamics of Regional Power Politics.