Dr Andriy TYUSHKA publishes a chapter on "Middle power assertiveness as a behavioural model in foreign policy"

Dr Andriy TYUSHKA, Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin, has authored a chapter in the edited volume Rethinking Middle Powers in the Asian Century on "middle power" in international relations theory and practice, which has just been published with Routledge. His chapter on "Middle power assertiveness as a behavioural model in foreign policy" challenges the mainstream perception of middle powers as "good international citizens", thus pointing to rich real-policy evidence of middle powers acting as "bad international citizens", too. The chapter draws on a burgeoning literature on foreign policy assertiveness in an effort to conceptualize both cooperative (niche diplomacy, bridging, norm and idea entrepreneurship, etc.) and confrontational (soft balancing, hedging, balking, veto and spoiler politics) practices of middlepowermanship in international relations.

The book can be accessed here.