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Regional powers can be distinguished by four pivotal criteria: claim to leadership, power resources, employment of foreign policy instruments, and acceptance of leadership. Applying these indicators to the South African case, the analysis demonstrates the crucial significance of institutional foreign policy instruments. But although the South African government is ready to pay the costs of co-operative hegemony (such as capacity building for regional institutions and peacekeeping), the regional acceptance of South Africa's leadership is constrained by its historical legacy. Additionally, Pretoria's foreign policy is based on ideational resources such as its reputation as an advocate of democracy and human rights and the legitimacy derived from its paradigmatic behaviour as a 'good global citizen'. However, the Mbeki presidency is more successful in converting these resources into discursive instruments of interest-assertion in global, rather than in regional bargains. In effect the regional power's reformist South-oriented multilateralism is challenging some of the guiding principles of the current international system. ; Regionale Führungsmächte können anhand von vier Kriterien unterschieden werden: Artikulation des Führungsanspruchs, verfügbare Machtressourcen, außenpolitische Instrumente zur Interessendurchsetzung und Akzeptanz des Führungsanspruchs durch externe Akteure. Die Übertragung dieser Kriterien auf den südafrikanischen Fall zeigt zunächst die zentrale Bedeutung institutioneller Instrumente innerhalb der südafrikanischen Außenpolitik. Obgleich Pretoria bereit ist, die Kosten kooperativer Hegemonie zu tragen (z.B. Investitionen in Regionalinstitutionen und Friedenssicherung), untergräbt das historische Legat der Ära der Apartheid den regionalen Führungsanspruch. Dabei basiert die Außenpolitik des demokratischen Südafrika zuvorderst auf ideellen Ressourcen: Als Anwalt für Demokratie und Menschenrechte hat Südafrika seit dem Regimewechsel viel Renommee und Legitimität erworben. Die Konvertierung dieser ideellen Ressourcen in diskursive Instrumente zur Interessendurchsetzung gelingt der Regierung Mbeki in globalen Verhandlungen allerdings weitaus besser als in afrikanischen Institutionen. Im Ergebnis stellt der reform- und entwicklungsorientierte Multilateralismus der südafrikanischen Regionalmacht einige etablierte Normen des gegenwärtigen internationalen Systems in Frage.

The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Australia, as elsewhere, is steeped in historical and ongoing violence, including violences of colonisation. The way that IR is taught and practised in Australia reproduces the discipline's erasures and ignorance of the effects of colonisation and ongoing forms of marginalisation, knowledge extraction, and harm that normalise existing structures of power. In this article, we ask how mainstream theories, pedagogies, and practices of IR scholarship in Australia contribute to the ongoing coloniality of the discipline and reproduce these geospatial hierarchies and structures of marginalisation and exclusion. We argue that, as teachers, we have to consistently engage in un‐doing the violence of disciplinary history. We theorise that this is so because the artefacts we teach are the product of a knowledge life cycle immersed in, and structured by, coloniality and hierarchy. Drawing on a survey of Australian universities' IR curricula and interviews with their instructors, in addition to our own research training and practice as Australian IR academics, we examine how, if, and when it is possible to connect decolonial theory with practice and to thus generate decolonial praxis in the production of IR knowledge.

In the original publication of this article (Abbate et al. 2018), a disclaimer was omitted. The authors wish to state the following:The views expressed in this study are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect those of the Swiss National Bank.The authors regret the omission.

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of «abuse of rights» in terms of its negative manifestation in different legal systems. In order to clarify the legal nature and content of the abuse of law, the question of the relationship between lawful and wrongful conduct was analyzed. Based on the study of doctrinal sources on this issue, ways to overcome the abuse of rights have been identified at the international and regional levels. The monitoring of foreign and national legislation in the article led to the conclusion that abuse of law is a phenomenon that permeates all branches of law and all groups of legal relations. The implementation of knowledge and legal traditions of international and domestic regulation of this category makes it possible to develop new ways to combat abuse of law at the social and legal levels. In our opinion, the legal significance of regulations aimed at counteracting the phenomenon of abuse of rights at the regional level in domestic law is significantly underestimated. The principle of inadmissibility of abuse of rights does not have its own stable logical theoretical construction, including at the constitutional and legal level, which indicates the need to enshrine it in a separate provision of the Constitution of Ukraine. At the same time, it should be recognized that effective counteraction to abuse of rights at the legislative level should be carried out both at the level of general legal principles and at the level of special industry regulations and norms.