Anemerging power orrising power is asovereign state orunion of states with significant rising influence in global affairs. Such a power aspires to have a morepowerful position or role ininternational relations, eitherregionally orglobally, and possess sufficient resources and levels of development that such goals are potentially achievable.
There are few available conceptualizations of the term "emerging power". Therefore, there is no standard or agreed method to decide which states are emerging powers.[citation needed] However, a fundamental characteristic of an emerging power is that it is also anemerging economy, being that economic development is necessary and preliminary to political and military emergence.[1] It has been argued that while a country may be an emerging power, it is above anything else an emerging economy with only the potential or hope of increasing their global influence. This is because of several limiting factors, largely the seven dimensions of state power: geography, population, economy, resources, military, diplomacy, and national identity.[2] Traditionally, onlygreat powers orsuperpowers have succeeded in all seven dimensions of state power.
TheBRICS[3] are often cited as being emerging powers, but at varying stages of development and of varying degrees of potential. For example,Russia, which was once a superpower, is now re-emerging in some aspects of state power following thefall of the Soviet Union.China andIndia are emerging aspotential superpowers, whileBrazil is emerging as a possible great power.[4][5][6]
Although there is no exact and agreed upon definition of what constitutes an emerging power, the term has sometimes been also applied to the following other countries:
^"Secondary regional powers in Huntington's view include Great Britain, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Argentina." See Tom Nierop, "The Clash of Civilisations," inThe Territorial Factor, edited by Gertjan Dijkink and Hans Knippenberg (Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, 2001), p. 61.
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Argentina[7][9]
Brazil[3][10][9][11]
China[3][10][9][11]
India[3][10][9][11]
Indonesia[10][12]
Mexico[13][10][9][11]
Russia[3][10][11][needs update]
Saudi Arabia[7]
South Africa[3][10][9][11][7]
Turkey[10][12]
Algeria[14]
Colombia[15][16][17]
Egypt[18][19][20][21]
Ethiopia[22][23][24][25]
Iran[26]
Malaysia[27]
Nigeria[12][28][29][30]
Pakistan[31][32][33][34]
Philippines[27]
Poland[35]
Thailand[27]
United Arab Emirates[36]
Vietnam[27]
