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GIGA RP 3Research Programme 4:
Power, Norms and Governance in International Relations
This research programme examines how various aspects of the globalisation process have influenced the character of international relations in recent decades. In doing so, it adheres to a decidedly multidimensional and multidisciplinary orientation. With the rapid growth of multiple forms of cross-border activities, social problems that are beyond the control of nation states have increased. At the same time, demographic and economic shifts between established and aspiring powers are increasingly being addressed by academics and in the media. The two research teams of RP 4 are studying the two central trends of this development: Research Team 1, “Power, Leadership and Regional Order”, focuses on the analysis of so-called “(new) regional powers” such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Research Team 2, “Global Governance and Norm Building” analyses multi-actor constellations, global governance patterns, and transnational and international norm building.
News
- The Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers opens on April 1, 2010 with 12 Ph.D. students. (Website)
- The Graduate School’s opening ceremony will be held on April 27, 2010, 5–8 p.m., at the GIGA, room 519; the event will include speeches by Prof. Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford), Prof. Karoline Postel-Vinay (Sciences Po, CERI Paris), Cornelia Pieper (Staatsministerin im Auswärtigen Amt), and others.
- Project: Contested Leadership in International Relations - Power Politics in South America, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, Volkswagenstiftung, Schumpeterinitiative (2011-2015)
Research Teams
The central themes and questions researched by the programme’s two research teams are as follows:
1. Power, Leadership and Regional Order
- What demographic and economic shifts between established and aspiring powers can be identified?
- What role are aspiring states such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa taking on in inter-regional and international relations?
- What is the relationship between material power and political leadership?
- How can the research team’s core terms – region, power and leadership – be theoretically understood and methodologically applied?
2. Global Governance and Norm Building
- What is the best way to analyse multi-actor structures and norm-building processes within the international realm?
- How can the core term “global governance” be captured, analytically and methodologically?
- What are the greatest challenges within the broad field of global governance?
Selected publications
Destradi, Sandra (2010): Regional Powers and Their Strategies: Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership, in: Review of International Studies (RIS).
Flemes, Daniel. (2009): Brazilian Foreign Policy in the Changing World Order, in: South African Journal of International Affairs, 16, 2: 161-182.
Flemes, Daniel (ed., 2010): Regional Leadership in the Global System: Ideas, Interests and Strategies of Regional Powers, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Nabers, Dirk (2010): Punishment and Global Order, in: International Studies Review, 12/1, S. 110-115.
Nabers, Dirk (2010): Power, leadership and hegemony in international politics: The Case of East Asia, in: Review of International Studies (RIS).
Nabers, Dirk (2008): China, Japan and the Quest for Leadership in East Asia. Hamburg: GIGA Working Paper No 67 (Abstract & Volltext).
Nolte, Detlef (2010): How to Compare Regional Powers: Analytical Concepts and Research Topics, in: Review of International Studies (RIS).
Prys, Miriam (2009): Regional Hegemon or Regional Bystander: South Africa’s Zimbabwe Policy 2000-2005, in: Politikon – South African Journal for Political Studies, 36 (2).
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