Journal Issue:

International Politics

Volume: 52, Issue: 2

• Contested leadership in international relations
• Why do secondary states choose to support, follow or challenge?
• Drivers of strategic contestation: The case of South America FREE
• Neither balance nor bandwagon: South American international society meets Brazil's rising power
• Revisiting consensual hegemony: Brazilian regional leadership in question
• Contested regional orders and institutional balancing in the Asia Pacific
• Explaining the evolution of contestation in South Asia
• South Africa's symbolic hegemony in Africa
• African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS