Middle Powers Flashcards
Who says that to understand middle powers you must examine their foreign policies?
Cooper, Higgot and NOSSAL
What are the three ways that middle power FP manifests itself?
Catalyst
Facilitator
Manager
How do middle powers act as a catalyst?
Promoting global issues
How do middle powers act as a Facilitator?
building coalitions
How does a middle power act as a manager?
Acting in their region to promote and enforce norms and institutional roles
What three countries are held up as classic middle powers?
Canada
Australia
Norway
Who coined the therm middlepowership?
Holmes
What is middlepowership?
Diplomacy stressing:
Mediation
International institution building
Conflict resolution
What style to middle powers tend to adopt?
The activist style
seeking to insert themselves into issues of international concern
What is the diplomatic initiative?
Thinking though a problem
Gathering like minded states
Presenting solution to great powers
How did Gareth Evans describe being a middle power?
The Foreign policy equivalent of boy scout good deeds
What is seen as the archetype for middlepowermanship?
Canadian intervention in the Suez Crisis in a conflict between friends.
Why do middle powers think that bilateral negotiations won’t work
The modern degree of contemporary interdependence
Why do middle powers like to use international institutions?
Over discrete channels for negotiation, bargaining and privately aranging trade offs
Better for small powers who might only afford a UN delgation etc.
Who has suggested Malaysia as a middle power?
Nossal and Stubbs
