| Summary/Abstract |
AFTER the bipolar model ended in the 1990s, global politics unequivocally entered an era of chronic instability and reformatting. "Chaos threatens side by side with unprecedented interdependence," said U.S. foreign policy guru Henry Kissinger.1 In this context, the emergence of new global "power centers," regional powers with their conflicting and intersecting spheres of interest, supposes that the mass of small countries* will use more diverse action strategies and various forms and methods of adapting to the variable external environment beyond the binary framework of the "two traditional realistic types of behavior: balancing and bandwagoning.
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