Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen underlined India's rising global influence, describing it as “one of the biggest powers” and no longer merely a “middle power”. She also called for deeper ...

Middle power diplomacy occupies a distinct niche between great power contests and small state pursuits, combining sufficient resources to shape outcomes with the flexibility to forge creative ...

Scholars are calling for Vietnam to see itself as a middle power and to behave like a true middle power to accommodate its growing role in regional settings. But is Vietnam already a middle power or ...

Tokyo’s defense exports are becoming tools for building a new middle power security network across the Indo-Pacific.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is trying to position Kazakhstan as a leading advocate for changing “the architecture of international relations” in ways that give “middle powers” a greater say in ...

For the better part of the last twenty years, whenever the world thought of Pakistan, the focus was usually on terrorism, political chaos and a struggling economy. Naturally, this bad press made ...

Is South Korea a middle power? This question might be difficult to answer—not least because the term ‘middle power’ is rather nebulous and poorly defined. However, there is little doubt that South ...

The navy based its assessment partly on regional partners admiring its newer ships that were deployed in recent joint ...

To be a middle power requires a modest disbelief in power. These states take their medium-sized resources and direct them towards big objectives. This may be reactive, searching for self-preservation ...

It appears that South Korea has formally reached the status of a middle power as of 2021. Militarily, it ranks sixth in the world, and economically, it is estimated to be one of the ten largest ...

If Seoul falls short, addressing the North Korea challenge and defending a rules-based order in Asia will be ever more difficult. Seoul looks to shape Asia’s future with pro-social norms and ...