Presentation: The emerging powers and the contemporary world order: dilemmas, tensions, and possibilities

We present the special issue “The emerging powers and the contemporary world order: dilemmas, tensions, and possibilities”, organized and published by the journal Sociedade e Cultura from the University of Goias. The debates that have been done in the last years in the Research Group on Middle Powers (GPPM) and the Research Group in Asia-Pacific (GEPAP/UEPB) has called attention to the necessity to organize events and publications that strand together some thoughts concerning such topic. Henceforth, workshops and panels were organized in academic meetings on National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS), on the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI), and on the International Studies Association (ISA); and now, we are glad to organize this special issue, which represents an important moment of synthesis of some reflections regarding the emergence processes of new middle powers and their impacts to the contemporary world order.