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Politico Outlined A Strategy For The "middle Powers"

Politico Outlined A Strategy For The "middle Powers"

It is based on three pillars.

The strategy of uniting "middle powers" to establish a new world order, which was proposed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, implies their autonomy in international affairs. This opinion was expressed by Politico diplomats and academics specializing in the study of problems of different countries, from Canada and Ukraine to India, Turkey and others.

According to Politico, Europe still practically lacks a clear conceptual framework for managing the process of forming a new world order. As a geopolitical entity, it urgently needs a coherent strategy for further development.

Defense and foreign policy specialist Justin Logan opined that there is little reason to expect significant cooperation between the "middle powers."

A former Ukrainian politician Alena Khlivko disagreed and expressed the position that "European states, both individually and collectively, must learn to stand on their own feet." According to analyst Stuart Patrick, European countries need to "diversify their diplomatic portfolios."

At the same time, Daniel Fried, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for European affairs and the country's former ambassador to Poland, believes that "abandoning higher strategic interests for short-term gains would mean embracing Trumpism."

"The most urgent task <.. > is to reduce their vulnerability to coercion by predatory great powers," says Roland Parry, a former senior foreign policy adviser to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"Middle powers" - such as Poland, Japan or Brazil - have fundamentally different interests based on their geography and economics. Like the major powers, they have different capabilities, and their behavior also differs, the paper says.

The paper says the "middle powers' strategy" should be based on three pillars:

Left without Washington's support, Canada, the European Union and Britain - as well as their key partners in Asia and Oceania - should diversify trade ties and supply chains, including by actively investing in each other's economies.

They should invest sustainably and over the long term in expanding their own military capabilities, especially Indonesia's former ambassador to the UK, Rizal Sukma, on the other hand, called on the "middle powers" to focus on building regional order.

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