Given the importance of the assertion or prevention of regional leadership for the future global order, this paper examines the strategies and resources being used to assert regional leadership as well as the reactions of other states within and outside the respective regions. Secondary powers play a key role in the regional acceptance of a leadership claim. In this article we identify the factors motivating secondary powers to accept or contest this claim. Three regional dyads, marked by different degrees of “contested leadership,” are analyzed: Brazil vs. Venezuela, India vs. Pakistan, and South Africa vs. Nigeria. The research outcomes demonstrate that the strategies of regional powers and the reactions of secondary powers result from th...
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This paper analyzes the declining importance of political parties in the Central African Republic (C...
Various concepts ascribe key roles to emerging non‐OECD countries in regional and global polit...
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Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state’s security forces on the security ...
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Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
Although primary industries are important to developing countries, they have been largely unable to ...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
In the course of the last decade, the IBSA states (India, Brazil, South Africa) have increased their...
This paper analyzes the declining importance of political parties in the Central African Republic (C...
Various concepts ascribe key roles to emerging non‐OECD countries in regional and global polit...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state’s security forces on the security ...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
According to the theory of “democratic peace,” India, as the largest democracy in the world and as S...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
Although primary industries are important to developing countries, they have been largely unable to ...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...