Much time and enormous amount of academic effort has gone into defining small states and
their position in world politics. This endeavor, sadly, has produced very little agreement. It is …

This article explores the emerging regional security architecture to fight terrorism and
insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB). It diagnoses the evolution of the Lake Chad Basin …

In this article we show that small powers are able to socialize regional leaders using
altercasting strategies. The altercasting operates within the leader's role repertoire replacing …

This article looks at how the Russian invasion has reshaped the EU's Eastern
neighbourhood policy and subsequently how has the new policy affected the strategies of …

This article explores the possibility of conceiving South America and Southern Africa as
subsystemic unipolarities under Brazilian and South African primacy, respectively. It argues …

Within the last 50 years, the Brazilian share of South American power has increased from
one-third to one-half of the overall material capabilities in the region. Such a significant …

More than a decade has passed since an intense research interest in Regional Powers
arose in IR. However, this original impetus has of late notoriously tailed off. This was in part …

In this book, Feliciano de Sá Guimarães offers an original application of Role Theory. He
proposes a theory of master role transitions to explain how small powers can change …

In this paper, we apply the concept of entrepreneurial powers to analyze Brazil's
participation and influence in international crises. Following Ravenhill (this journal issue) …

Recent developments in regional studies argue that geopolitical influence is one factor
affecting the regional order. However, studies on geopolitical influence have yet to cover …