Author claims that #middlepowers cannot go it alone without #major #power support, and by the end opines that the #US is still the #only major power that could #guarantee #safety with its #military #hegemony. Some bits of the analysis seem flawed, but worth the read.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/middle-power-delusion?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=twofa&utm_campaign=The%20Middle%20Power%20Delusion&utm_content=20260529&utm_term=N&utm_id=B

This is very interesting.

PM Carney is very good. People who criticize the petro aspects are not thinking about practical considerations.

Definitely not a fan of petro anything, but it's not going to happen over night, the transition time needs to be navigated carefully. PM Carney is doing that.

#Canada #MiddlePowers #petrostate #electrostate #Europe #geopolitical #DWNews

https://youtu.be/VUYOYmNPkvE

A long and thoughtful read on the capacity of middle powers in uncharted territory.

The cold war fed middle powers. Globalization also fed them. Now, all bets are off.

And the lesser powers? Yeah.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/middle-power-delusion

#hegemony #middlepowers #economy #politics

Opinion: Middle Powers and the “Voice of the Region” – Is Central Asia Becoming a Coordinated Actor?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/middle-powers-and-the-voice-of-the-region-is-central-asia-becoming-a-coordinated-actor/

Concise must-watch from Foreign Policy! #Mia #Mottley, #PrimeMinister of #Barbados on what Trump has made obvious about #international #relations as #private #moneygrab and how so-called "middle powers" [and even small ones like Barbados] must #cooperate for the basic #future of their #people. She says that "Where does the money go?" is now a question that can be clearly answered.

https://www.youtube.com/live/UwpwF-QJgnA

#middlepowers

Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly