China's rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as 'middle powers' are responding to China's growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. China's rise is…
China's rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as ""middle powers"" are responding to China's growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. States with ca…
"This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the Atla…
"This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the Atla…
"The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict which dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond t…
Preface / Karel Davids -- Reforming senates in the post-revolutionary North-Atlantic world : an introduction / Nikolaj Bijleveld and WybrenVerstegen -- Senates and bicameralism in revolutionary Europe (c.1795-1800) / Joris Oddens -- The rise and fall of the quasi-bicameral syste…
What strategies and tactics, absent the presence of a powerful domestic ethnic lobby, are most likely to lead to success in U.S. congressional foreign policy legislation for a middle power? The study first examines all lobbying spending by both great powers and middle powers ove…
Counterinsurgency (COIN) is a long process that even great powers struggle with. Nevertheless, South Korea as a middle power was successful with COINs in Vietnam and Iraq. What were the drivers for the Republic of Korea (ROK) military's success? This dissertation maintains that …
MPs are states that have an innate form of statecraft and perceived power as a result of their size. This volume establishes a unifying theory for the concept of middle power (MP). This book presents hybridization theory as a basis for analysis, policy development and prediction…
"Taking a comparative focus on Indonesia and Malaysia to inform and test a unifying theory for the concept of middle power (MP), Jonathan Ping's volume presents hybridization theory as a basis for analysis, policy development and prediction of MP statecraft and perceived power."…