Awkward Powers: Escaping Traditional Great and Middle Power Theory (Hardcover)

 PART I ? INTRODUCTION.

1. Gabriele Abbondanza and Thomas Wilkins, The Case for Awkward Powers

PART II ? AWKWARD GREAT POWERS

2. Gabriele Abbondanza, The Odd Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan as Awkward Great Powers

3. Emilian Kavalski, India: An Awkward Great Power?

4. Thomas Wilkins & Lucas Rezende, A liminal and transitional awkward power: Brazil betwixt the great and middle powers.

PART III ? AWKWARD MIDDLE POWERS

5. Amy Freedman, Thailand as an Awkward Middle Power

6.Sarah Teo, Middle power awkwardness? Indonesia’s norm entrepreneurship in ASEAN

7. Jonathan Ping, Malaysia as an Awkward Middle Power

8. Yolanda Spies, The Equivocal Power of South Africa

10. Dorothee Vandamme, The Normative Awkwardness of Pakistan

11. Virginie Grzelczyk, Neither This Nor That: Understanding North Korea via Role Theory

12. Aleksandar Mitreski, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Rentier Middle Power in Pursuit of Global Leadership of the Islamic Community

13. Gil Merom, Awkward and Peculiar: On Israel Flying Above its Designated Positional Pigeonhole

14. Peng Er Lam, Singapore as an awkward “little red dot”: between the small and middle power status

15.  Marion Jacques, Tanguy Struye de Swielande and Tanguy de Wilde d’Estmael, Belgium: The capacities of a middle power, but the ambitions of a small power?

PART IV ? CONCLUSION