Foreign Policies of Great, Middle, and Small Powers

Welcome to the Foreign Policies of Great, Middle, and Small Powers course! This course acquaints you with how power matters in the conduct of international relations and how it influences the strategies and tactics of a nation-state in dealing with other nation-states. It demonstrates the link between a country’s ranking in the international system and the means and methods it adopts to deal with the rest of the world. The course begins with introducing a few concepts on what constitutes power in world affairs, how it is calculated, and how the international power configuration changes over ti…