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Middle Powers and Regional Influence Middle Powers and Regional Influence Critical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia Joshua B. Spero London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateof Rowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andLondon(UK) www.rowman.com Copyright©2019byJoshuaB.Spero Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformation AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:HB978-1-78660-988-5 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Spero,JoshuaB.,author. Title:Middlepowersandregionalinfluence:criticalforeignpolicyjuncturesforPoland,South Korea,andBolivia/JoshuaB.Spero. Description:Lanham,Maryland:Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,[2019]|Includesbibliographi- calreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018030650(print)|LCCN2018045572(ebook)|ISBN9781786609892(elec- tronic)|ISBN9781786609885(cloth:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Poland—Foreignrelations—1989–|Korea(South)—Foreignrelations— 1988–2002.|Bolivia—Foreignrelations—21stcentury.|Middlepowers—Casestudies. Classification:LCCJZ1625(ebook)|LCCJZ1625.S682018(print)|DDC327—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018030650 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Formyfamily,friends,colleagues,andcompatriots Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction:SettingtheSceneforThreePivotalMiddlePowers xiii WhyPivotalMiddlePowersatCriticalJunctures? xiv TheBook’sOverview xvi The“Middle”WaytoBridgewith“Major”Powers xvii HowMiddlePowersBecomePivotal xviii MiddlePowersinSelf-HelpRegionalSystems xxii ContingentRealismforOther-HelpRegionalBridging xxviii BeyondThisBook xxxii Notes xxxiii 1 BridgingEurope’sDivide:Post-CommunistPoland(1989–1991) 1 PromotingOther-HelpBridgingintheHeartofSelf-HelpEurope 2 TheRootsforPoland’sForeignPolicyTenets 4 DefiningtheStakes:TheFirstMazowieckiPhasefromFall 1989toFall1990 8 InnovativeDiplomacy:Winter–Fall1990 12 TowardEuropeanReintegrationinPost-SovietEurope,1991 16 BridgingHeartlandEurope 19 Notes 21 2 BridgingAsia’sDivide:Postauthoritarian,Post–RulingParty SouthKorea(1998–2003) 35 AntecedentsforTransformativeMiddlePowerLinkages 36 Other-HelpBridgingwithinNortheastAsia’sSelf-HelpSystem 40 MiddlePowerBridgingtoChangeNortheastAsianMajor PowerDynamics 43 CriticalJunctureswithJapanandChina 46 vii viii Contents SunshineChallengestotheNorthtoBridgethePeninsularDivide 51 NortheastAsia’sMiddlePowerinAsia’sMajorPower SecuritySystem 58 Notes 59 3 BridgingSouthAmerica’sDivide:PostcolonialIndigenous RulingBolivia(2006–2009) 71 CriticalJuncturebetweenDomesticandForeignPolicy 71 RemakingBolivia’sForeignPolicyTenets 75 BridgingtheHeartofSouthAmerica’sSelf-HelpSystemvia Other-Help 76 PracticalHard-NosedDiplomacyforOther-HelpBridging 78 KeyMiddlePowerPolicieswithMajorPowersBraziland Argentina 79 SovereignRegionalMiddlePowerPlayer 85 Notes 86 Conclusion:MiddlePowersDoMatterRegionally 95 MiddlePowerFaltering,MiddlePowerProgress 99 BridgesReachFar 100 Notes 102 Bibliography 105 Books/BookChapters 105 JournalArticles,Monographs,NewspaperArticles,Official Documents 122 Index 139 AbouttheAuthor 143 Acknowledgments Embarkingontheextraordinaryjourneyofwritinganotherbookbringsmany emotions, particularly excitement mixed with solitude, determination, crea- tivity, and satisfaction. Knowing the path helps greatly when deciding to walk that path toward publication again. The challenges of writing a book when having ample time makes for very rewarding moments in one’s life. Yetteachingfull-timeatawonderfulpublicuniversity,raisingandwatching mytwowonderfulsonsemergeintoyoungmen,andsupportingandsharing inalifelongjourneyofministrywithmywife,madethedecade-longjourney ofwritingthisnextbookquitechallengingindeed. Suchisthepaththatmakesthechallengesinlifethatmuchmorereward- ing.Fortheauthorchoosestotakesuchajourneywhere,withgreatfortune, familyandfriends,colleagues,andcompatriots thecommitmentbecamethe achievement.Fromtheoutset,mypurposefocusedontryingtocontributeto thegreaterliteratureininternationalrelationsanditsever-changingtheoreti- cal models, foreign policymaking, intriguing history, and extraordinary eco- nomicdevelopmentthatboundthethreepathbreaking,critical-juncturelead- ership eras in Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia. It’s the telling of such stories that truly drove me to help others understand new perspectives and new angles, understandings, and assessments from the emergence of early leaderships and their foreign policy decision-making in rapidly evolving post-Communist Poland, postauthoritarian/post–ruling party South Korea, and postcolonial Bolivia. When analyzing how help by those weaker might help those stronger to help themselves and, by extension, reduce regional tensions, help cooperation by bridging historical differences, and, perhaps, decrease the perennial likelihood of conflict, let alone destructive war, then that’sthebottomlineforwritingthisbook. ix
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