Talk:Small power

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This reads more like an essay on the need to pay attention to small powers than an encyclopedia entry on what small powers actually are. The wikipedia page on middle powers would be a good model for improving this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.95.126.178 (talk) 18:42, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Editors have since revised the article. Peripteros (talk) 10:10, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Use of the term "state"

The article should mention the term "state" very early on. It should be a link to Sovereign state, as for Superpower, specifically:

  [[Sovereign state|state]]

--AlastairIrvine (talk) 15:28, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

 Done – the link was added to lead to match comparable articles. Peripteros (talk) 10:08, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Small power

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Small power's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Solomon":

• From Pakistan: Hussein Solomon. "South African Foreign Policy and Middle Power Leadership". Archived from the original on 24 June 2002. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
• From Middle power: Solomon S (1997) South African Foreign Policy and Middle Power Leadership, ISS

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 08:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

A small state is...

The article seems to open assuming that the reader already knows what a small state is. It would be very helpful to start with "A small state is..." and give a nutshell definition for those readers, like me, who happened across this article and had to read the opening paragraph a few times before realising it was something to do with countries and not a psychological state. I would edit it myself, but I'm still not sure what a small state is. Robyn2000 (talk) 07:57, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

A comprehensive summary was added akin to middle power. Peripteros (talk) 10:22, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Caribbean States is small power states or Medium power states?

I believe confusingly that most of Caribbean states are categorised as small power states because of their internal realities such as economic development, military capability, technology and cultural influence among other things. Emperorlll (talk) 08:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Please provide a reliable source and include it in the relevant section. Peripteros (talk) 10:22, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Overlap Between Middle and Small Powers

Since both this article and the Middle Power article mention that there is overlap between Small and Middle Powers, to what extent should this be represented in the listing? I added the Czech Republic, since the Middle Power article mentions it as an example of a state that can be considered a Small Power, but it was removed for the stated reason that it is more often considered a Middle Power rather than a Small Power. Bulgaria is listed on both pages, and while Angola is only listed as a Small Power, it has been cited as Middle Power in a source used in that page and was previously listed. Maybe there should be a list of countries considered by different scholars as either Small or Middle Powers the same way that there is a list of countries that have been described as both Middle Powers and Great Powers on the Middle Power page. ~2026-11000-41 (talk) 02:12, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

It looks like this comparable "overlap" section on middle power has significantly more reliable sources attesting to the overlapping states. I support adding a brief note on the existing list. Peripteros (talk) 10:22, 1 April 2026 (UTC)