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. Secondary powers...

South America's security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate conflicts and transnational threats. Though located at different systemic levels (national, international, transnational), the three conflict clusters are often interrelated and tend to overlap in...

Argentinien erlebte in der Jahren 2001 und 2002 die schwerste Wirtschaftskrise seiner jüngeren Geschichte. Doch auch diese schwere Krise war nur Teil eines Jahrzehnte alten Entwicklungsmusters. In seinem Verlauf führten chronische Inflation, Leistungsbilanzprobleme, Produktivitätsmängel und...

The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace...