Superpowers and regional powers' soft power in Kazakhstan
Since gaining its independence in 1991, Kazakhstan has sought to balance its foreign policy toward those of the superpowers and regional powers. This study conducts a literature review and analyses the soft power strategies of superpowers and regional ...
Saken Yessirkep +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Underbalancing in a regional world [PDF]
This paper adapts underbalancing theory to explain regional powers' decisions when faced with the politics of great power intrusion. The paper finds two situations where regional powers defy expectations and details the causal models using India (1979 ...
Hutto James Wesley
doaj +1 more source
The Impact of Kurdistan's Referendum, in Activating the Role of the Regional Powers in Solving Their Problems [PDF]
This research paper deals with conducting Kurdistan Region's referendum on independence, which triggered a crisis at the local levels in Kurdish and Iraqi, the regional, and even the international levels.
Mustafa Jaber Al-Alwani
doaj +1 more source
Concepts of World Order and their Implications for Regional Power Research
Regional powers attracted the heightened interest of researchers in international relations (IR) when the first signs of potential challenges to the unipolar world order appeared, but after a decade’s worth of efforts to make sense of regional power ...
Faust, Anita
doaj +1 more source
This article aims to understand how democratization processes have influenced the foreign policy of regional powers in the Global South. Our theoretical model brings together the concepts of ‘regional power’ and ‘graduation dilemma’.
Pablo de Rezende Saturnino Braga
doaj +1 more source
The problem of differentiation of the competence of the federal and regional authorities of the state environmental control (supervision) [PDF]
Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of delimitation of competence for carrying out control and supervisory activities vertically – between federal and regional executive authorities that implement the function of environmental control ...
Mladenova, Elizaveta V.
doaj +1 more source
CHINESE FACTOR IN INDIA-US RELATIONS
Relations within India-US-China triangle are rather complicated. The basis of the Sino-Indian dialogue was laid by the 1962 war, after which mutual distrust became its permanent feature.
E. P. Shavlay
doaj +1 more source
An Assessment of the Consequences of the U.S Decentralization from West Asia and Its Impact on the National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]
The purpose of the present study is to assess the policy of the U.S decentralization from West Asia and its consequences on the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The method of study was descriptive analysis and the findings show that the
Mashallah Heidarpour +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Imbalance and Heterogeneous Behavioral Patterns of Regional Powers in Syria Crisis Managment [PDF]
The collapse of the bipolar structure of the international system caused imbalance in the international system. In the bipolar structure, the balance of power crisis management was carried out by two blocs, but by the collapse of the system, crisis ...
Neda Kahrizi, Ghodrat Ahmadian
doaj +1 more source
The Conflict of Active Regional and International Powers over Nagorny Karabakh Region
The current study is descriptive; it focuses on studying the contemporary geopolitical problem, and sectarian differences in Caucasus. Nagorno-Karabakh is considered an important disputed region nowadays.
Widad H. K. Ali, Muhaymin A. T. Al-Wadi
doaj +1 more source

