The changing architecture of politics in the Asia-Pacific
Australia's middle power moment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12700983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Beeson (0000-0002-8659-262X, Murdoch University, corresponding author), Richard Higgott (Murdoch University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-237 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-482X • E-ISSN: 1470-4838 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/irap/lct016 |
| OpenAlex | W2128781916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 45 |
Middle power theory is enjoying a modest renaissance. For all its possible limitations, middle power theory offers a potentially useful framework for thinking about the behavior of, and options open, to key states in the Asia-Pacific such as South Korea, Japan and Australia, states that are secondary rather than primary players. We argue that middle powers have the potential to successfully implement ‘games of skill’, especially at moments of international transition. Frequently, however, middle powers choose not to exercise their potential influence because of extant alliance commitments and the priority accorded to security questions. We substantiate these claims through an examination of the Australian case. Australian policymakers have made much of the potential role middle powers might play, but they have frequently failed to develop an independent foreign policy position because of pre-existing alliance commitments. We suggest that if the ‘middle power moment’ is to amount to more than rhetoric, opportunities must be acted upon
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Profiling Middle Powers in Global Governance and the Turkish Case
Korea as green middle power
Steering a middle path in Sino-US rivalry
Regional security strategies of middle powers in the Asia-Pacific
Middle powers and climate change
Asymmetric relations and systemic misperceptions
Role Conception of the Asia-Pacific Middle Powers
Layered Incoherence in Middle Power Foreign Policy
Brokering Peace
Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
Australia and the Path Not Taken
Australia and the pursuit of “not undermining” regional bodies at the biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction negotiations
Caught between two worlds
Resisting issue-linkage
Australia and the Ukraine crisis
Middle Powers and the Behavioural Model
Saving the WTO’
Realistic Relations? How the Evolving Bilateral Relationship is Understood in China and Australia
Exploiting Sino-US Geostrategic Competition
Australia’s trade diplomacy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Middle power strategic choices and horizontal security cooperation
Middle power, status-seeking and role conceptions
Australia the ‘good international citizen’? The limits of a traditional middle power
Middle-power behaviours
Chinese views of Australian foreign policy
Managing the dead in disaster response
Middle power legitimation strategies
Transition from hedging to balancing in Australia’s China policy
Global IR and the middle power concept
Middle-power definitions
Invasion by invitation
Advance diaspora diplomacy in a networked world
Unpacking the dynamics of weak states’ agency
The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers
Between market and state
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021
Middle Power Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Regionalism for Realists? The Evolution of the Indo-Pacific
Is anyone a middle power? The case for historicization
Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior
Framing middle power foreign policy
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival
Middle power and power asymmetry
Regional Security in Southeast Asia
The halse Promise of International Institutions
The Moral Purpose of the State
Of medium powers and middling roles
The “Middle Power” Concept in Australian Foreign Policy
The New Imperialism
The Asean Regional Forum and Preventive Diplomacy
Deepening Asean cooperation through democratization? The Indonesian legislature and foreign policymaking
China's rise and middle power democracies
The Declining Theoretical and Practical Utility of ‘Bandwagoning’
The informal diplomacy of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue
Can Australia save the world? The limits and possibilities of middle power diplomacy
Is Australia a middle power? A systemic impact approach
Cycles of middle power activism
Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific
State sovereignty, political legitimacy and regional institutionalism in the Asia-Pacific
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The Emerging Structure of International Politics
Indonesia’s Rising Regional and Global Profile
Middle Power Internationalism
Global Transformations
Symposium
Unipolarity
Geopolitics and the Making of Regions
Democratization and Stability in East Asia1
Dominance and Leadership in the International Economy
Middle power leadership and coalition building
The politics of international regime formation
Economics and Security in Statecraft and Scholarship
Before Hegemony
Reinterpreting India's Rise through the Middle Power Prism
The concept of a middle power in international relations
The G-20 and International Economic Governance
South Africa's emergence as a middle power
Reconstituting the Global Public Domain - Issues, Actors, and Practices
Middle Powers during Great Power Transitions
Middlepowermanship, Japan, and Future World Order
Hegemony, liberalism and global order
The Rise of the Virtual State
Emerging World Order? From Multipolarity to Multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |