Promising growth rates, increased trade, and competition among major global players for African resources have boosted the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed countries remain vulnerable to external shocks....

Research on Chinese International Relations (IR) theory has produced a variety of discourses, including post-positivist analyses, contributions by area specialists and China watchers, and articles by Chinese IR scholars. These strands, however, hardly overlap or communicate with each other. To...

How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exercise in coalition building among Southern middle powers, the "India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum". The analysis outlines five major points: first, it argues that the three emerging...