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nature of the global power hierarchy, it draws attention to a number of countries that fit awkwardly into existing but outdated categories such as “great power” and “middle power”.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 book’s 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.

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Gabriele Abbondanza, Ph.D., is 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. His research has been published in journals such as European Political Science, History of Political Thought, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and The International Spectator. He has published two monographs on Australian and Italian geopolitics (Aracne), and currently teaches a number courses related to International Relations and Security.

Thomas Wilkins, Ph.D., is 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 securityissues in journals such as Review of International Studies, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and International Relations of the Asia Pacific. He co-edited the volume Rethinking Middle Powers (Routledge) and his latest monograph is entitled Security in Asia Pacific (Lynne Rienner).

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