The intractable problem of regional powers

Fuller, Graham E.; Arquilla, John

doi:10.1016/s0030-4387(96)90021-6

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“…A first phase spans from Neumann’s edited volume ( 1992 ), introducing the notion of ‘regional great powers’ for the first time in a systematic way into the discourse of IR, to Nolte’s article How to compare regional powers ( 2010 ), which in a way represented a watershed in regional powers’ research as Nolte drew heavily on the cumulated knowledge up until then but for the purpose of formulating a new research agenda. In this eighteen-year interval, a few scholars—Fuller and Arquilla ( 1996 ), Ayoob ( 1999 ), Lemke ( 2002 ) and Buzan and Waever ( 2003 )—first applied the notion of regional powers to investigations on the international politics of regions. Their work was thus foundational for the latter development of RPRP.…”

Section: The Rprp In Ir: Structure Of the Debatementioning

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The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment

Garzón

2022

Int Polit

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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 the result of an unfavourable international environment but also, I argue, of an exhaustion of the programme’s conceptual and analytical framework as such. This can be specially seen in three fronts. First, in the inability of the initial theoretical framing to account for new empirical observations, and an insufficient engagement of Area Studies research for revising these initial propositions; second, in a conceptualisation of global-level influences that has been too restrictive and theoretically impairing; and third, in the difficulties encountered by efforts to explain the formation of regional orders by leveraging regional powers as main explanatory variables. A second argument is that some of the fresh approaches needed to overcome these problems might be found in Comparative Regionalism.

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Section: The Rprp In Ir: Structure Of the Debatementioning

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The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment

Garzón

2022

Int Polit

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“…Meanwhile, geopolitical location and the inherent "intractable" challenge of being neighboring regional powers will probably bring greater impinging and friction rather than a smoother relationship. 163 Application of IR liberalismfunctionalism theory remains uncertain, since neither regional/international organizations, nor trade will necessarily generate particularly strong positive ties between India and China. Any democratization in China will probably benefit Sino-Indian relations in the longer run, in line with the IR democracy = peace linkage, though populist Han nationalism could muffle any such democracy dividend in the shorter term.…”

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Sino-Indian Security Predicaments for the Twenty-First Century

Scott

2008

Asian Security

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This article considers various security predicaments affecting relations between India and China. These Sino-Indian security predicaments include their territorial dispute, their nuclear arms race, their encirclement and alignment scenarios, their trade and energy issues, and their future prospects. International relations (IR) theory is deployed around these varied security predicaments, with power and perception particularly evident in IR realism, geopolitics, constructivism, and security dilemma dynamics. Balance-of-power theory is complemented by balance-of-threat considerations. India's hedging strategy towards China and China's own strategy of transition point to each country looking to their own respective rise for the mid century.

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“…According to the same perspective, the USA tends to avoid the emergence of such a regional power. One option for it to do so could be the promotion of a regional actor who is able to block the development of a regional power (Fuller/Arquilla 1996;Nolte 2006: 33).…”

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Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel's Middle East Policies

Beck

2008

SSRN Journal

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The intractable problem of regional powers

Cited by 19 publications

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The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment

The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment

Sino-Indian Security Predicaments for the Twenty-First Century

Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel's Middle East Policies

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