Regionalism has long conceptual and empirical histories across social sciences, and areas
of the international and transnational practice of economics, imperialism, and environmental …

China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries–
but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and …

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 …

This article discusses the usefulness of studying regional powers through a 'politics-of-
scale'lens. We argue that this approach, borrowed from political geography, helps to better …

This paper offers a revised and decentred perspective on regional power behaviour in world
politics. Our revisionist approach departs from existing accounts by incorporating three key …

This paper uses the case of Sino–Southeast Asian relations to gain insights on China's
ability to muster support for its global agenda. The analysis focuses on the regional–global …

Economic and domestic political crises as well as global structural shifts that have resulted
in a much tighter interconnection of events, actors, and institutions across the national …

The article analyzes the security dynamics of competing regional powers that have the
added characteristic of geographic contiguity. It argues that geographic contiguity further …

Since the end of the Cold War, international nuclear non-proliferation (NNP) institutions
have more than doubled. The expansion of the regime was a partial reaction to new …

This article seeks to employ embeddedness theory–focusing on how human activities are
embedded in society and institutions–as a theoretical and methodological groundwork for a …