That is a research paper it is nothing
According to the British International Studies Association, THEY THINK PAKISTAN AND INDIA ARE ON PAR.
Regional power hierarchies are also central to another theoretical approach. In
the framework of their regional security complex theory(RSCT), Barry Buzan and
Ole Wæver
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differentiate between superpowers and great powers which act and
have an impact on the global level (or system level) and regional powers whose
influence may be large in their regions but have less of an impact at the global
level. This category of regional powers includes Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq,
Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey. The status of a
great power requires material resources together with the formal recognition of the
power’s status by other great powers as well as observable repercussions on the
operation of the international system and the behaviour of other great powers (or
superpowers).
Regional powers define the structure (polarity) of any regional security
complex. Their power capabilities might be considerable, but they are restricted to
the regional context. Higher-level powers from outside the region don’t take them
into account in their global power calculations. Buzan and Wæver
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have devised
their typology in order to analyse regional security policies and complexes. It
would be interesting to expand their analytical scheme – for example, with respect
to the analysis of the distribution of economic power – to create a multidimensional power model (including economic and soft-power resources) for the
study of the regional and global power distribution.
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/downlo...pare_nolte.pdf
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Even if it suggesting topics for an individual to pursue it gives enough information to let the individual know what a regional power is and the examples of it.
