Emerging power

An emerging power or rising power is a sovereign state or union of states with significant rising influence in global affairs.

Such a power aspires to have a more powerful position or role in international relations, either regionally or globally, and possess sufficient resources and levels of development that such goals are potentially achievable.

Therefore, there is no standard or agreed method to decide which states are emerging powers.

This is because of several limiting factors, largely the seven dimensions of state power: geography, population, economy, resources, military, diplomacy, and national identity.

For example, Russia, which was once a superpower, is now re-emerging in some aspects of state power following the fall of the Soviet Union.