MIDDLE POWERS IN THE SPACE DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOUTH KOREA AND INDONESIA

“Middle powers” is an academic term that encompasses the external manifestations of a state actor, such as spatial scale, resource volume, economic strength, geostrategic position, and international influence. Research on middle powers has gradually progressed from area studies to governance research specific development fields. This article begins by providing theoretical definition reviewing practices actors, then applies concept space field. By new “space designing “Space Power Ladder” model in methodology, this summarizes development-related factors analyzes comparative cases, highlighting similarities differences background implementation paths South Korea Indonesia field, which are general sense. demonstrating causal relationship between different related influencing factors, proposes supplements innovations for both typology global powers. Keywords: Middle Powers, Space Ladder, Law, Cooperation