Awkward powers : escaping traditional great and middle power theory / Gabriele Abbondanza, Thomas Stow Wilkins, editors.
Abbondanza, Gabriele, editor.; Wilkins, Thomas S., 1973- editor.
2022
JZ1313
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Title Awkward powers : escaping traditional great and middle power theory / Gabriele Abbondanza, Thomas Stow Wilkins, editors.
ISBN 9789811603709 (electronic bk.)
9811603707 (electronic bk.)
9811603693
9789811603693
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0370-9
Publication Details Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-16-0370-9 doi
Call Number JZ1313
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.1/12
Summary This book introduces the editors new concept of Awkward Powers. By undertaking a critical re-examination of the state of International Relations theorising on the changing nature of the global power hierarchy, it draws attention to a number of countries that fit awkwardly into existing but outdated categories such as great power and middle power. It argues that conceptual categories pertaining to the apex of the international hierarchy have become increasingly unsatisfactory, and that new approaches focusing on such Awkward Powers can both rectify shortcomings on power theorising whilst shining a much-needed theoretical spotlight on significant but understudied states. The books contributors examine a broad range of empirical case studies, including both established and rising powers across a global scale to illustrate our conceptual claims. Through such a novel process, we argue that a better appreciation of the de facto international power hierarchy in the 21st century can be achieved. Gabriele Abbondanza, PhD, is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. He specialises in Australian and Italian foreign and security policy; national power, and regional, middle, and great power theory. Thomas Wilkins, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in International Security in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, and a Senior Fellow (Non-Resident) at the Japan Institute for International Affairs. He has published widely on International Relations theory and Asia-Pacific security issues.
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Wilkins, Thomas S., 1973- editor.
Series Global political transitions.
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Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1. The Case for Awkward Powers
Part 2: Awkward Great Powers
Chapter 2. The Odd Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan as Awkward Great Powers
Chapter 3. India: An Awkward Great Power?
Chapter 4. A liminal and transitional awkward power: Brazil betwixt the great and middle powers
Part 3: Awkward Middle Powers
Chapter 5. Thailand as an Awkward Middle Power
Chapter 6. Middle power awkwardness? Indonesias norm entrepreneurship in ASEAN
Chapter 7. Malaysia as an Awkward Middle Power
Chapter 8. The Equivocal Power of South Africa
Chapter 9. Between a regional hegemon and a middle power: Is Nigeria an awkward middle power?
Chapter 10. The Normative Awkwardness of Pakistan
Chapter 11. Neither This Nor That: Understanding North Korea via Role Theory
Chapter 12. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Rentier Middle Power in Pursuit of Global Leadership of the Islamic Community
Chapter 13. Awkward and Peculiar: On Israel Flying Above its Designated Positional Pigeonhole
Chapter 14. Singapore as an awkward little red dot : between the small and middle power status
Chapter 15. Belgium: The capacities of a middle power, but the ambitions of a small power?
Part 4: Conclusion
Chapter 16. What makes an awkward power? Recurrent patterns and defining characteristics.

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