ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the emergence of new players in the international security and peacebuilding arena created contestations. It examines the security behaviour of India, China and Brazil, analyses their cooperation and contention with Euro-American powers and identifies implications for small countries in the global south. The chapter also analyses the interactions between rising powers, established powers and small countries in light of democratic peace and regional security complex theories. Regional security complex theory provides the rise of regional powers whereas democratic Peace thesis is important to assess how liberal influencers deal with security matters in small countries. Ambitious new powers curry political favour from such expectations through assistance in physical reconstruction and infrastructure development. The chapter discusses empirical evidence of cooperation and conflicts between emerging and established powers. It explores the trends in interactions and extracts strategic inferences. When actors dissent from each other on strategic fronts, economic agendas still create the possibility of cooperation.
