Middle Powers and Regional Influence: Critical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia

In 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 examines—Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia.

For this book’s three case studies and their first-term leadership’...