The end of the Cold War has reinvigorated academic interest in the regions of the world, as
well as in the regional powers and potential regional hegemons that inhabit them. Yet, what …

This book presents a new theoretical framework through which to understand the role of
regional powers in creating and maintaining regional security orders. As a result of the …

Since 1994 when South Africa emerged from the doldrums of apartheid isolation, there has
been much contention about the hegemonic profile of South Africa as well as its Nigerian …

Post-apartheid South Africa has experienced its largest in-flow of migrants since the start of
the crisis in Zimbabwe almost two decades ago from which Zimbabwe has yet to recover …

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU (PF) government's violent seizure of
white-owned commercial farms in 2000 heralded the nadir of diplomatic relations with British …

Regional powers are often assumed to place diplomatic emphasis on their surrounding
regions. Yet few systematic comparisons have been carried out to empirically verify this …

Academic scholarship on Nigeria's space exploration is dominated by engineering, the
natural sciences, and humanities. Thus, analysis of the country's space exploration is …

Two pillars underpin Africa's approach to climate change negotiations: One is the “African
Common Position,” and the other is the development of a negotiating coalition for presenting …

Political, military and humanitarian crises endanger regional order. But even though
regional powers are expected to act as stabilizers in these cases, their responses to dire …

The growth and survival of the field of conflict resolution can only be attained if practice is
used to generate theory, rather than a reliance on the current situation where theory …