Regional Powers and Regional Orders (Routledge/GARNET series)

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.

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 China’s 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.