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This book explores the relation between a country's involvement in conflict resolution initiatives and its positioning in the international system, particularly from states that have strengthened-or sometimes weakened-their position in the international hierarchy of power through a leading role in regional conflict resolution initiatives.
List of contents
List of Figures
The Editor and Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Going South
Jerónimo Delgado-Caicedo Part I: Theories of Conflict Resolution and International Positioning in the Global South
2 Emerging Powers, a Radical Change in the Global Hierarchy of Power
Jerónimo Delgado-Caicedo and Juliana Andrea Guzmán-Cárdenas3 Conflict Resolution and Positioning in the Global Power Hierarchy
Jerónimo Delgado-Caicedo, Juliana Andrea Guzmán-Cárdenas and Lucía Filippo-AguillónPart II: The Middle East and North Africa
4 Saudi Arabia and Security in the Middle East, New Challenges and Opportunities
Mohamed Badine El Yattioui and Yassine El Yattioui5 The Regional (in)security of Iran: Reconstruction, stability and nuclear power
Marcela Álvarez-Pérez and Nathalia Torres-Crespo6 Turkey: from Successful Mediator to Partisan Actor - Back to Successful Mediator?
Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere7 Algeria, an Emerging Power in Regional Conflict Resolution Initiatives
Laurence-Aïda AmmourPart III: South and East Asia
8 India-Pakistan, Intractable Conflict: A Challenge to the Emergence of Regions and Powers
Soraya Stella Caro-Vargas and Kelly Johana Arévalo-Franco9 Constructive Engagement: Conflict Resolution with Chinese Characteristics
Fujian Li, Kwok Chung Wong and Jin Guanhui Part IV: Eastern Europe
10 The Emergence of Azerbaijan as a Regional Power: Between Tensions and Neutrality
Soraya Stella Caro-Vargas and Kelly Chaib De Mares11 Perceptions of the Role of Belarus in the Ukrainian Conflict and the Impact on the International System
Francisco Daniel Trejos-Mateus, Erli Margarita Marín-Aranguren and Kelly Johana Arévalo-Franco Part V: Sub-Saharan Africa
12 The Shining Black Star of Africa: The Tale of Ghana in Conflict Resolution
Afua Boatemaa Yakohene and Juliana Abena Appiah13 Implications of Ethiopia's Engagement in Conflict Resolution Initiatives in the Horn of Africa on its Global Positioning
Kuruvilla Mathews and Adane Alemayehu Tadesse14 Foreign Policy Imperatives of Nigeria's Engagement in Conflict Resolution in Africa
Chibueze Nna-
Emeka Okereke 15 Kenya's Regional Leadership in Peace Diplomacy: A Case of Somalia Peace
Process
Paul Odhiambo Odongo16 Constructive Diplomacy, Quiet Diplomacy, Diplomatic Pan-Africanism and South Africa's Many Approaches to Conflict Mediation in Africa: An Assessment
Mopeli L. Moshoeshoe and Amy NiangPart VI: Latin America
17 Brazil and Venezuela's Migration Crisis: Dealing with a Regional Emergency in a Time of National Crisis
Maurício Santoro Rocha, Maiara Folly and Tássio Franchi18 Emerging Middle Powers vs. Peripheral Leadership: Argentina and the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands under the Kirchner Administration (2010-15)
Juan Erardo Battaleme19 Mexico's Role as a Middle Power: From Diplomatic Activism to Commercial Foreign Policy
Luis Ochoa Bilbao, Myrna Rodríguez Añuez and Juan Pablo Prado Lallande20 Chile and Regional Peace: A Rising Power Gamble?
María Teresa Aya-Smitmans Index
