This article explores how weak countries deflect systemic pressure towards change and even succeed in preserving old institutions to their advantage. By expanding Goddard’s theory of embedded revisionism to smaller powers, the study identifies strategies these states deploy to improve access and brokerage. We use the UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset to locate multilateral brokers and, after detecting Cuba’s centrality in this arena, we proceed to a heuristic case study. Havana’s maneuvers to offset its vulnerability during and after the Cold War reveal a mix of structural, institutional, and compulsory power. Specifically, its renewal of the Non-Aligned Movement even after the end of bipolarity, its maintenance of autocracy amidst the pressures for democratization, and later support of radicalized Latin American leaders provide insight regarding unexpected sources of network power available to a resilient rogue state.

本文探讨了弱国如何转移变革的系统性压力，甚至成功地保留旧制度以使其受益。通过将戈达德的嵌入修正主义理论扩展到较小的国家，该研究确定了这些国家为改善准入和经纪而部署的策略。我们使用联合国大会赞助数据集来定位多边经纪人，在发现古巴在这一领域的中心地位后，我们开始进行启发式案例研究。哈瓦那在冷战期间和之后弥补其脆弱性的策略揭示了结构性、制度性和强制性权力的结合。具体来说，即使在两极格局结束后，不结盟运动的复兴，在民主化压力下维持独裁统治，以及后来对激进的拉丁美洲领导人的支持，都为我们提供了关于弹性流氓国家意想不到的网络权力来源的见解。