FOREIGN POLICY CRISES: CASE STUDY OF PERU

This research deals with the conditions under which foreign policy crises concerning small and peripheral powers outbreak, pretending by this way to close a literature gap mainly focused on superpowers and/or middle powers. If it is true that this kind of power strongly influences the regional and international environments, this study of other law-ranged power may offer significant information to a better understanding of foreign policy crises at all. Examining 211 cases, we have observed that certain prominent point of crises events and actor behavior are strongly associated to the occurrence of foreign policy crises involving low-ranged powers.