Middle Powers and Regional Influence - 9781786609885

Middle Powers and Regional InfluenceCritical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia\nAuthor(s): Joshua B. Spero\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786609885, 978-1786609885\nSynopsis\nIn 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 examinesPoland, South Korea, and Bolivia.\n\nFor this books three case studies and their first-term leaderships critical juncturesfrom first term post-communist Poland, post-authoritarian/post-ruling party South Korea, and post-colonial Boliviawe have the antecedents for contemporary middle powers essentia.