 Middle Power Diplomacy Initiative Working Paper No. 4 |
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In this working paper, Sangbae Kim of Seoul National University suggests that it is most important for South Korea as a middle power to have the ability to read constantly evolving contexts and identify its moving position in cyber security. In that way, South Korea’s middle power diplomacy can be defined as having three pillars: brokerage diplomacy, collective diplomacy, and complementary diplomacy. Kim envisions the role of South Korea as a middle power to be that of an architect, not a whole system designer, but a complementary programmer who provides useful programs for the whole system operated by world powers. This paper uses the positional approach to understand the dynamics of “asymmetric inter-network politics,” which is composed of: 1) techno-social structure of cyberspace, 2) issue-specific political structure in global cyber security governance, and 3) geopolitical structure generated by the U.S.-China competition. 
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