Regional Powers: Global and European Studies Institute University of Leipzig Cora

Regional Powers
Global and European Studies Institute

University of Leipzig
Cora Wu | Moritz Hessler

Agenda Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
Regional Leading Powers | Moritz

Definition and profile of a regional power?
Challenges of Cooperative Hegemony | Cora

Why chosing cooperative hegemony?
Discussion | All
Questions
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Regionalization Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
What does it imply

Regionalization increases for the state itself as USA also regional leading
in importance as multilevel well as other states power, projecting regional
subsystem to traditional and actors? weight to global sphere
global power hierarchies
--> increasing likelihood of

What qualifies a What does regional
conflicts about regional
country to become leadership mean in
leadership --> China &
regional leader? the global arena?
India

Definition & Implications Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
Delineated Region
Claim its role as only regional leading power
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance
Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda
Power over resources
Interlinkage with the region
Commonly accepted within and beyond the region
Strives for an increased global weight

Delineated Region
geographically, economically, political self-perception
delimitation should be widely accepted within and beyond region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

Delineated Region

certain self-conception, aim for rule making
avoid foreign interference, try to keep other regions divided
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes

in geopolitical delimitation & political-ideational construction of region
agenda setter on activities and outcomes of the region
Regional Governance

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance
regional leadership = cooperative hegemony --> towards regional institutions
precondition: power aggregation, power sharing, committment capacities
advantages of scale, diffusion of political ideas, min. likelyhood of oppositional alliances

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

part of power transition theory --> stabilizing its own region
guarantee that cooperation is more profitable than conflict --> platforms, public goods
avoid regional competitors

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

material (military, economic, demographic), organizational (political), ideological
crucial element to project power into the region

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

economic, political, and cultural
hard resources and coercion not sufficient to reign --> soft resources & relations
partly opposes anchor country concept

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

by fellow states, other regional leading powers, and the global hegemon as leader and
representative for the region

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

region used for global goals, global activity to protect regional cooperative hegemony
niche-specialization, multilateral-cooperative approach

Delineated Region
Power over outcomes
Regional Governance

Two assumptions Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
GIGA assumes that all the countries behave

rationally
Only Brazil, China, India, Iran, Japan, and South

Africa are considered as regional powers

GIGA says that... Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
The most efficient approach for regional powers is

cooperative hegemony (which means to act as noncoercive
hegemons and leaders)

Modes of regional power Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
Destradi Knorr Pedersen Nye
Categories Hard
and Hegemony
Terminology Hard
used by Power
different Intermediate Reward
scholars Hegemony Power
Soft Cooperative Soft

Hegemony Hegemony Power

Cooperative Hegemony Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
What is cooperative hegemony?
What are the difficult tasks of cooperative hegemony?
Why should these regional leaders choose to become cooperative

hegemony but not other types of hegemony?

What is cooperative hegemony?
Destradi – hegemons pay efforts to change the norms or values of

subordinates.
Nye – get others to want the outcomes that you want – co-opts people
rather than coerces them.
Gramscian – do not use coercion but rather cooperation and subtle

means in order to realize their preferences and make others comply.

What are the difficult tasks of cooperative hegemony?
To gain the followership of their neighbors.
To include their neighbors’ interests in their policies and provide

incentives to them.
The policies and systems of the potential hegemon need to be

recognized as role models by its neighbors

Why should these regional leaders choose to become cooperative

hegemony but not other types of hegemony?
GIGA: a de facto regional power needs “not only sufficient power

resources but also soft skills in leadership”
Constructivism: the most effective leadership is when subordinates

accept and internalize “the leader’s concepts of hegemony and the
leader’s vision of international order”
Realism: regional powers’ lack of full power like other great powers
results in cooperative behavior
=> Regional powers, “by acting as cooperative hegemons, they

restructure their (regionally limited) systems and create an environment
highly favorable to interstate cooperation”

Questions Regional Leading Powers | Cooperative Hegemony | Questions
How do you assess the claim of both

Who would you consider to be a regional India and China to be a regional leading
great leading power? power in an overlapping geographical
area?
What are the differences between How is the regional leading power in Europe? Ist there
regional leading powers and only one?
regional hegemons?

Thank you!
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University of Leipzig
Cora Wu | Moritz Hessler ©

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Regional Leading Powers | Moritz

Challenges of Cooperative Hegemony | Cora

Find this presentation on youtube

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What does it imply

--> increasing likelihood of

Präsentation: Hessler ©, Wu | Leipzig, May 2011 3

Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region

Commonly accepted within and beyond the region

Strives for an increased global weight

Präsentation: Hessler ©, Wu | Leipzig, May 2011 4

Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region

Commonly accepted within and beyond the region

Strives for an increased global weight

Präsentation: Hessler ©, Wu | Leipzig, May 2011 5

Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region

Commonly accepted within and beyond the region

Strives for an increased global weight

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Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region

Commonly accepted within and beyond the region

Strives for an increased global weight

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Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region

Commonly accepted within and beyond the region

Strives for an increased global weight

Präsentation: Hessler ©, Wu | Leipzig, May 2011 8

Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region

Commonly accepted within and beyond the region

Strives for an increased global weight

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Claim its role as only regional leading power

Power over outcomes

Defines and takes responsibility for the regional security agenda

Power over resources

Interlinkage with the region