ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an understanding of statecraft. It defines the attributes of statecraft, and examines the middle powers (MPs). The chapter provides an understanding of statecraft, which establishes areas of statecraft behaviour that can be used as structure for enquiry. It considers how state sovereignty is established and discusses the various definitions of statecraft. The chapter enables the study of MP statecraft because it establishes the crucial components of statecraft that can then be employed within the study as areas of enquiry. The definition of statecraft has been contemplated from the acceptance of the state as sovereign and from a position which questions the sovereignty of the state and sees it as an ongoing battle against the collapse of the state itself. Such an approach accords the state a rational motivation for its statecraft beyond megalomaniac visions of world domination. Statecraft maintains the state as the primary organisational unit for the development of human attributes and demands.
