An examination of the nature of middle power diplomacy in the post-Cold War era. As the rigid hierarchy of the bipolar era wanes, the potential ability of middle powers to open segmented niches opens up.

Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Niche Diplomacy: A Conceptual Overview; Andrew Cooper - Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era; Richard Higgott - Middle Powers as Managers: International Mediation Within, Across and Outside Institutions; Alan K. Henrikson - Canada as a Middle Power: The Case of Peacekeeping; Geoffrey Hayes - Between Realism and 'Crusader Diplomacy': The Norweigan Channel to Jericho; Oyvind Osterund - Addressing Apartheid: Lessons from Australian, Canadian and Swedish Policies in Southern Africa; David R. Black - Finding Your Niche: Australia and the Trials of Middle-Powerdom; Brian Hocking - Mahathir's Malaysia: An Emerging Middle Power?; Kim Richard Nossal and Richard Stubbs - Middle Powers and Regionalism in the Americas: The Cases of Argentina and Mexico; Louis Belanger and Gordon Mace - Turkey: A Middle Power in the New Order; Meltem MYftYler and MYberra YYksel - South Africa: Understanding the Upstairs and the Downstairs; Peter Vale - Index