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Sometimes known as a ‘medium power’, a state which is regarded as being in the second rank after the great powers/super-powers but has sufficient weight within its own region to be considered a ‘regional great power’. A good example is South Africa in southern Africa. The status of middle power was implicitly recognized by the creation of semipermanent seats on the Council of the League of Nations in 1926, though the subsequent efforts of Canada and Australia (sometimes described as ‘the original middle powers’) to have priority given to this class of states in elections to non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council did not prove successful. The interesting theory has been advanced that middle powers are predisposed to exceptional international virtue since they have insufficient power to foster ‘imperialist’ policies but enough to make them good soldiers on behalf of the UN. |
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