Bandwagoning in International Relations: China, Russia, and Their Neighbors

In international relations, many realist scholars have focused excessively on great powers, often sidelining the behavior of minor powers or secondary states.In Bandwagoning in International Relations: China, Russia, and Their Neighbors, Dylan Motin studies the behavioral traits of minor powers, i.e., the occasions on which they choose to oppose or follow the great powers.He describes two distinct schools of thought on how states deal with superior military powers.The first school contends that, most of the time, minor powers adopt a balance-of-power approach, and