Rethinking interdependencies: Ideal-typical worldviews on small and medium powers’ economic security
Journal: Cooperation and Conflict
Year: 2025

Asymmetric and systemic interdependencies are increasingly viewed as security risks that could materialise as harmful outcomes for small and medium powers. While great powers have an arsenal of resources to decrease interdependencies, for smaller powers size constitutes a core vulnerability and becomes a key variable in their recalculations of economic security. This article (1) identifies potential harmful outcomes brought on by the competences of great powers, and (2) constructs three ideal-ty