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In the growing literature on middle powers, this book contributes
by expanding case study analysis and extending international
relations theory in its application to foreign policy decisions.
Thus, this book builds on prominent middle power literature and
aims to advance our theoretical understanding for why crucial
foreign policies were made by the "pivotal middle" powers this book
examines-Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia. For this book's three
case studies and their first-term leadership's critical
junctures-from first term post-communist Poland,
post-authoritarian/post-ruling party South Korea, and post-colonial
Bolivia-we have the antecedents for contemporary middle powers
essential for realizing the regional evolution for cooperative
change with greater powers systemically; we may then grasp today
why those historical foreign policies, albeit not so long ago, give
us crucial antecedents for adapting and trying, yet again, to
resolve seemingly perennial power dilemmas regionally, peacefully.
Here are why middle power impact matters, not only regionally for
stronger, dominant greater power neighbours, but also for
transformative middle power leaderships which proved pivotal
geopolitically for their region's challenges and changes.
Do middle powers matter geopolitically to great powers when
confronting the unconventional, twenty-first-century threats from
nation-states or nonstate actors? By studying certain middle power
politics in the heart of early, anarchical, and volatile post-Cold
War Europe, we can better grasp the impact such middle powers have
in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Bridging the European
Divide explores how key regional middle powers perceived and
advocated their political power options, and tells the largely
untold story behind the motives of significant middle power
decisions and repercussions. Such regional alignment decisions
stemmed from the ideas, opportunities, and realities necessary to
transform nation-states amid acute regional uncertainty, global
upheaval, and international systemic change. In order to achieve a
better understanding of how to bridge the post-9/11 gap between
changes in material incentives and the role of ideas, Spero smartly
connects two different types of power politics-ways of assessing
security dilemmas and foreign policy decisions, and reasons why
middle powers and their geopolitical roles matter to great powers.
In the growing literature on middle powers, this book contributes
by expanding case study analysis and extending international
relations theory in its application to foreign policy decisions.
Thus, this book builds on prominent middle power literature and
aims to advance our theoretical understanding for why crucial
foreign policies were made by the "pivotal middle" powers this book
examines-Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia. For this book's three
case studies and their first-term leadership's critical
junctures-from first term post-communist Poland,
post-authoritarian/post-ruling party South Korea, and post-colonial
Bolivia-we have the antecedents for contemporary middle powers
essential for realizing the regional evolution for cooperative
change with greater powers systemically; we may then grasp today
why those historical foreign policies, albeit not so long ago, give
us crucial antecedents for adapting and trying, yet again, to
resolve seemingly perennial power dilemmas regionally, peacefully.
Here are why middle power impact matters, not only regionally for
stronger, dominant greater power neighbours, but also for
transformative middle power leaderships which proved pivotal
geopolitically for their region's challenges and changes.
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