Middle powers

Swielande, Tanguy Struye de

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“…Belgium historically sees itself as a small power, self-limiting its material capabilities (Jacques, Swielande, and D'estmael 2022). Consequently, the country fails to fulfill a crucial criterion of a middle power: self-conception, which essentially requires acknowledging its status as a middle power (Swieland 2019). Israel, despite having significant economic and military power, is too dependent on the United States and on the Jewish diaspora support to be considered a middle power (Merom 2022).…”

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European Union Foreign Policy

Barros de Albuquerque,

Brandão

2023

Rev. Carta Inter.

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This article examines the voting patterns of Nordic countries and the Netherlands in the UNGA, highlighting their longstanding alignment. Notably, Norway and Iceland are not part of theEuropean Union, which has been enhancing its foreign policy coherence since 1993. The central focus is to investigate if this integration has led to a divergence between EU member states and non-members. By calculating the voting cohesion rate among these countries in the UNGA from 1993 to 2021, the article found no significant variation in the cohesion rate, suggesting that European integration has not ended their historic alignment.

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Barros de Albuquerque,

Brandão

2023

Rev. Carta Inter.

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“… 36 Jordaan 2003, 2017; Carr 2014; Patience 2014; Manicom and Reeves 2014; Robertson 2017; Struye de Swielande et al . 2019.…”

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“… 117 Jordaan 2003, 2017; Carr 2014; Manicom and Reeves 2014; Patience 2014; Struye de Swielande et al . 2019; Abbondanza and Wilkins 2022, 24.…”

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Is anyone a middle power? The case for historicization

Robertson

Carr

2023

Int. Theory

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What should happen to a concept as it loses real-world application? The concept of ‘middle power’ rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, establishing an influential practitioner–scholarly nexus over the next several decades. This prestigious history came at a cost, embedding three core assumptions into the concept: that middle powers are International in focus, Multilateral in method, and Good Citizens in conduct. While there have been significant attempts by scholars to reform the concept, middle power theory has proven inseparable from these assumptions. In this paper, we examine six middle power states (Canada, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia, Turkey, and Mexico) and show middle power theory no longer helps us distinguish or interpret these states. Changes in the international environment suggest this finding will endure. As such, we argue for the historicization of the concept of ‘middle power’. We conclude by identifying a series of analytical puzzles which researchers will need to address to develop an appropriate conceptual lexicon for theorizing this type of state in the 21st century.

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Strategizing about Outer Space. Europäische Mächte und ihre Weltraumstrategien im Kontext des Wettbewerbs zwischen den USA und China

Nock

2024

Sicherheit, Strategie &Amp; Innovation

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Middle powers

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Is anyone a middle power? The case for historicization

Strategizing about Outer Space. Europäische Mächte und ihre Weltraumstrategien im Kontext des Wettbewerbs zwischen den USA und China

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