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JE12: National Power and International Geoestructure
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National Power and International Geoestructure After the Cold War and global bipolarity, since the beginning of the 1990s of the last century, there was an acceleration of the processes of regionalization and glob alization, then two important phenomena began to be observed regarding the distri bution of power in the international system: on the one hand, some powers began to experience decrease in their national–international power and, with it, in their international projection; on the other hand, some countries (specifically the so-called BRICS) began to emerge or, in some cases, re-emerge as powers. Consequently, some academics returned to the concept of middle powers to address this phenomenon. Clearly, the so-called middle or intermediate powers constituted an extremely diverse set of nations, each with different historical trajectories and not always with common objectives to address shared challenges. Although in specific circumstances, such as the containment of great powers, they could come together and unite in defense of the rights of weaker states, generally speaking, they were unable to main tain a significant level of solidarity. This situation revealed theoretical, methodolog ical, and conceptual issues in relation to the concept of “middle power”. Despite its attractiveness, this concept was insufficient to explain the changes in international reality toward the end of the 20th century and the transformations in power dynamics in the Post-Cold War international system. | ||