ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is able to develop and test through comparative case study the theory of middle power (MP) hybridisation because it developed a new method of definition for MPs. The hybridisation theory provides a fundamental rationale for the statecraft and perceived power (PP) of the statistically identified MPs. By providing a fundamental rationale based on state size, hybridisation theory explains the diverse behaviour of MPs. Hybridisation theory contends that MPs are essentially and by requirement hybridisers of statecraft and PP. MPs develop in environments that have a high level of regional competition. The static and dynamic analysis of MPs offers the possibility of determining how a MP is performing and thus the ability to predict behaviour and/or develop policy for a MP. The scholarship on MPs was reviewed in chronological order and the tools of definition and the definitional environments were presented.
