Regional power

A regional power is a state that has resources at its disposal that are superior to those of its neighboring states, and which also makes the foreign policy claim to play a leading or dominant role in a region.

Even if there is a lack of analytical instruments for identifying and comparing regional powers and their demarcation from major and medium-sized powers , the five BRICS states Brazil , Russia , India , People's Republic of China and South Africa are referred to as regional powers in international politics.

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↑ Detlef Nolte , How to Compare Regional Powers. Analytical Concepts and Research Topics . In: Review of International Studies, 36 (2010) 4, pp. 881-901.
^ Daniel Flemes and Detlef Nolte: Regional Leadership in the Global System. Ideas, Interests and Strategies of Regional Powers . Ashgate, Farnham 2010, p. 1.
^ Christian E. Rieck: Counter model to the West? Ambitions and potentials of BRICS as an association of emerging regional powers , The Reader Security Policy - Transformation in the 21st Century, Federal Ministry of Defense , issue 12/2014.

[1] Detlef Nolte , How to Compare Regional Powers. Analytical Concepts and Research Topics . In: Review of International Studies, 36 (2010) 4, pp. 881-901.

[2] Daniel Flemes and Detlef Nolte: Regional Leadership in the Global System. Ideas, Interests and Strategies of Regional Powers . Ashgate, Farnham 2010, p. 1.

[3] Christian E. Rieck: Counter model to the West? Ambitions and potentials of BRICS as an association of emerging regional powers , The Reader Security Policy - Transformation in the 21st Century, Federal Ministry of Defense , issue 12/2014.