Regional Powers and Contested Leadership

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ebert, Hannes (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Flemes, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International relations.; Political leadership.; Comparative politics.; Globalization.; Regionalism.; International Relations Theory.; Political Leadership.; Foreign Policy.; Comparative Politics.

When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers? This book investigates how and why the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) project leadership in South America, post-Soviet Eurasia, South and Southe...