Niche Diplomacy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Niche Diplomacy: A Conceptual Overview

   • Andrew F. Cooper

   Pages 1-24

3. Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era

   • Richard Higgott

   Pages 25-45

4. Middle Powers as Managers: International Mediation within, across, and outside Institutions

   • Alan K. Henrikson

   Pages 46-72

5. Canada as a Middle Power: The Case of Peacekeeping

   • Geoffrey Hayes

   Pages 73-89

6. Between Realism and ‘Crusader Diplomacy’: The Norwegian Channel to Jericho

   • Öyvind Österud

   Pages 90-99

7. Addressing Apartheid: Lessons from Australian, Canadian and Swedish Policies in Southern Africa

   • David R. Black

   Pages 100-128

8. Finding Your Niche: Australia and the Trials of Middle-Powerdom

   • Brian Hocking

   Pages 129-146

9. Mahathir’s Malaysia: An Emerging Middle Power?

   • Kim Richard Nossal, Richard Stubbs

   Pages 147-163

10. Middle Powers and Regionalism in the Americas: The Cases of Argentina and Mexico

    • Louis Bélanger, Gordon Mace

    Pages 164-183

11. Turkey: A Middle Power in the New Order

    • Meltem Müftüler, Müberra Yüksel

    Pages 184-196

12. South Africa: Understanding the Upstairs and the Downstairs

    • Peter Vale

    Pages 197-214

13. Back Matter

    Pages 215-221

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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.

• Diplomacy
• international relations
• realism

• University of Waterloo, Canada

  Andrew F. Cooper

Professor,

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