Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reassessing the state : interdependence and power in the world today / Elena Aoun and Pierre Vercuteren -- Relations and processes : two neglected characteristics of power / Tanguy Struye de Swielande and Dorothée Vandamme -- Emerging powers : between interdependence and power / Pierre Vercauteren -- A constructivist form of hedging in Southeast Asia / Bruno Hellendorff -- Competition and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific : why major power hedge and what does this mean for regional order / Elena Atanassova-Cornelis -- Brazil under president Lula : a nex key player in the contemporary world / AmineAit-Chaalal -- When crisis breeds regional governance : how the developmental state bankruptcy led Brazil to innovate in foreign policy and wield soft ower all over Latin America / Dawisson Belem Lopes -- The state muddled in co-dependencies and Incremental policy making : the case of the economic and financial crisis in the European Union / Alain Guggenbuhl and Frank Lambremont -- Belgian development cooperation and the promotion of good governance : testing the power of incentives in Central Africa / Sidney Leclercq and Geoffrey Matagne -- Globalization and democracy : friends or foes? / Corinne Mellul -- Failing states, international blindness and the rise of radical Islam : unintended interdependence and unexpected powerlessness in the Middle East / Elena Aoun.