An examination of the nature of middle power diplomacy in the post-Cold War era. As the rigid hierarchy of the bipolar era wanes, the potential ability of middle powers to open segmented niches opens up. This volume indicates the form and scope of this niche-building diplomatic activity from a bottom up perspective to provide an alternative to the dominant apex-dominated image in international relations.

Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Niche Diplomacy: A Conceptual Overview; Andrew Cooper - Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era; Richard Higgott - Middle Powers as Managers: International Mediation Within, Across and Outside Institutions; Alan K. Henrikson - Canada as a Middle Power: The Case of Peacekeeping; Geoffrey Hayes - Between Realism and 'Crusader Diplomacy': The Norweigan Channel to Jericho; Oyvind Osterund - Addressing Apartheid: Lessons from Australian, Canadian and Swedish Policies in Southern Africa; David R. Black - Finding Your Niche: Australia and the Trials of Middle-Powerdom; Brian Hocking - Mahathir's Malaysia: An Emerging Middle Power?; Kim Richard Nossal and Richard Stubbs - Middle Powers and Regionalism in the Americas: The Cases of Argentina and Mexico; Louis Belanger and Gordon Mace - Turkey: A Middle Power in the New Order; Meltem MYftYler and MYberra YYksel - South Africa: Understanding the Upstairs and the Downstairs; Peter Vale - Index