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Emerging Powers

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Emerging Power: a state that is seeing an ascending transition within the global hierarchy of international relations due to socioeconomic, political, and or military growth, investments, and development.

Introduction

What is an emerging power? Depending on the source or the scholar, an emerging power may have a variety of changing and developing factors. For the purpose of this entry, the main determinants of an emerging power center on economic development and growth, alongside considerations of power politics such as military strength and perceived position in the world. Such metrics include the following: (1) military size and spending, (2) government involvement in multi- or bilateral institutions, organizations, and trade agreements, (3) society and government stability, (4) location of a country, (5) development and infrastructure, (6) nuclear weapons, (7) type of government, (8) degree of nationalism in the society, and (9) changes in political status globally with...

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  • Jacques, M. (2009). When China rules the world: The end of the western world and the birth of a new global order. London: Penguin.

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  1. Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH, USA

    Glen M. E. Duerr & Michael Wilt

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  1. University of Alberta, Alberta, AB, Canada

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  2. University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica

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  3. Nemzetkozi Tanulmanyok Intezet, Rm 503, Corvinus Univ, Inst of Intl Studies, Budapest, Hungary

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Duerr, G.M.E., Wilt, M. (2019). Emerging Powers. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_38-1

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