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Group 2 Domestic Politics : Outline

The Elite, Governance, Socio-political Cleavages, and Values

The concept of regional powers is not new in terms of international politics and development economics, but this research project is without global precedent in that it involves a comparative study of the conditions and strategies by which China, Russia, India and Turkey became regional powers. Specifically, it will compare those four countries using the following yardsticks.