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Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU Law School
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Neither peace nor war, democracies are under persistent duress from grey-zone conflict. The rules-based international order is under strain from superpower competition: global governance confronting a more anarchic, uncertain and unpredictable world. Authoritarian and democratic hegemons deploy geoeconomic coercion across analog and digital domains for geopolitical gain, a growing body of scholarship is writing off Middle Powers as collateral damage. Yet, reports of the death of Middle Powers are greatly exaggerated. To bridge the gap in international governance between bilateralism and multilateralism, Middle Powers have been taking the initiative by way of minilateralism: an emerging doctrine of persistent engagement in the form of coercive bargaining to assert the rule of law.
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Christian Leuprecht
Australophile Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D. Queen’s University) is a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School where he is collaborating on a project on geoeconomic coercion with A/Prof Anton Moisenenko. An award-winning Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal, Associate Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute and Senior Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, in Brussels, Christian is also a fellow with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin. Previous visiting fellowships include Germany’s Academy of International Affairs NRW (2022-2023), Fulbright Research Chair in Canada–US Relations at John Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (2020), Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College (2019), Matthew Flinders Fellow at Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), and Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010). He is an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada. His latest book is Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics (Springer, 2025).