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Despite this advantage, foreign policy analysis has maintained a rather strong focus on U.S. foreign policy and on crisis decision making. Several scholars in foreign policy analysis have remarked that “foreign policy decision making in the absence of crisis-related factors has gone largely unexplored.”25 Indeed, analysis of economic foreign policy making, decision making regarding foreign aid and development cooperation, the negotiation of international environmental treaties, and a range of other subjects remain a small proportion of the total volume of studies in foreign policy analysis. As the world becomes more interconnected, it will be important to begin to explore foreign policy making on subjects beyond crises more earnestly.

There is much more to be said about interdependence than the simple definition previously provided. Interdependence suggests that the relationsbetween states are characterized by mutuality and equality. But we have already seen that states are not equal. They differ in terms of size as well as resources. These differences have consequences for the interactions  between states.

 

Ultimately, size and power are about the degree to which states are constrained in the range of foreign policy  options available to their decision makers. 

The foreign policies of such states are circumscribed by the limitations imposed not only by their size but also by their geographic location and the structure of their relations with other  states. That brings us to the subject of interdependence. 

For Instance, Canada, which is a member of the G8, is a self-described  middle power. Its decision makers began to use this concept to describe t heir role in the international environment, Middle powers are states that t can wield a measure of influence, albeit not through the projection of military might. Consider, for instance, the role Norway played in the negotiations between representatives of Israel and the Palestinians that culminated in the Oslo Accords of 1993. Middle powers are usually affluent states that  employ their resources to foster peace and to lessen global economic  inequality. In addition to Canada and Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden have employed this label. The leaders of these states have at times characterized their countries as “like minded” and have acted as norm  entrepreneurs in the international environment