Contested Leadership in International Relations - Power Politics in South America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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. Three regional dyads, marked by different degrees of “contested leadership,” are analyzed: Brazil vs. Venezuela, India vs. Pakistan, and South Africa vs. Nigeria.

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Author:Daniel Flemes, Thorsten Wojczewski
Series:GIGA Working Papers
Volume:2010
Issue:121
Publisher:German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany