Examining Perspectives of Small-to-Medium Powers in Emergent Great Power Competition - Bandwagon or Balance?

This book delves into the resurgence of China and Russia as assertive regional powers, igniting debates and renewed interest in the dynamics of great power politics and power transitions. The questions of how competition with these states will evolve and what the future international system may resemble given their potential regional dominance are at the forefront of global concerns in the coming decades. As power politics intensify, the significance of allies and alliance systems escalates, becoming critical tools for states seeking to navigate this rising great power competition effectively.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Australia: Shifts in the Night: Australia s Defense Reforms and the China Debate.- Chapter 3: A comparative analysis of the role of middle powers in the Mekong Subregion and the case of Vietnam.- Chapter 4: Unraveling South Korea s Strategic Shift Amid Great Power Competition.- Chapter 5:Poland's Foreign Policy Choices in a Changing International Environment.- Chapter 6: Trapped between Asymmetries: Finland s Security Strategies in the Past, Present and Future.- Chapter 7: Hungary: A Hedging Strategy of Connectivity Across the Hedgerow of Sovereigntism.- Chapter 8: Sweden:Still a medium sized dog with a big dog attitude?.- Chapter 9: Brazil: Geopolitics in an Era of Renewed Great Power Competition.- Chapter 10: The Implications of the Rise of Small and Middle Powers for U.S.-China Great Power Competition.- Chapter 11 Conclusions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Philip Baxter (Editor), Philip M. Baxter (Editor), Philip M Baxter (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.08.2025
• EAN: 9783031869006
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3186900-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Illustrations: Approx. 310 p. 5 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Security
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Internationale Institutionen, Regionalism, Realism, International Organization, International Security Studies, Strategic Behaviour, geopolitical interests, Great Power Politics, Power transition, small-to-medium sized powers, Alliance dynamics