Quantitative Approaches to Global Power

Daniel Morales Ruvalcaba is Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University (China) and creator of the World Power Index (WPI), a multidimensional framework for analysing national power in the contemporary international system. He has held academic positions in Mexico and been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po (France), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Poland), and Universidad de la República (Uruguay). He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. His research centres on Latin America, BRICS, and the Global South, examining shifting configurations of world power.Carlos Pulleiro Méndez is an Associate Researcher at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and was a research fellow at Sun Yat-sen University (2018-2021) and a visiting scholar at the University of Deusto (2019-2020), Bilbao, Spain. In 2022, he became a lecturer at the European University of Gasteiz, Spain. His research focuses on sports diplomacy, international relations, and the geopolitics of sport.Alberto Rocha Valencia holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Paris VIII, France. He is Research Professor (Titular C) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, where he leads the consolidated research group “Integration, Governance, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.” He previously served as Director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru) and contributed to establishing postgraduate programmes in Political Science and Social Sciences at the University of Colima. A member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (1994–2024), his work focuses on Political Science, International Politics, regional integration, and globalisation.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: National Power and Global Reordering Through the World Power Index.- Chapter 2. New Perspectives on National-International Power: A Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Review.- Chapter 3. National Power and Economic Dominance: Exploring Global Influence Through the World Power Index.- Chapter 4. National Power and Autonomous Foreign Policy.- Chapter 5. National Power in the Global South: Multipolar Emergence and Geostructural Change.- Chapter 6. National Power in the Global North: Divergence and Patterns of Internal Reordering.- Part II: Empirical and Sectoral Applications of the World Powers Index.- Chapter 7. National Power and the Provision of Global Public Goods.- Chapter 8. National Power, Aid, and Health Equity: A Global Analysis.- Chapter 9. National Power and Technology: Analyzing the Development of Artificial Intelligence From the World Power Index.- Chapter 10. National Power and Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Emissions, Aboveground Biomass Loss, and Recursive Exploitation in the Semicore and Semiperiphery.- Chapter 11. National Power and Olympic Success. An Analysis of the Medal Table From the World Power Index.- Chapter 12. National Power and World Sports Rankings: Measuring the Capacity of Elite Sport to Reveal National Power and Produce Soft Power.