Small States in International RelationsChristine Ingebritsen, Iver Neumann, Sieglinde Gstöhl University of Washington Press, 1 сент. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 342 Smaller nations have a special place in the international system, with a striking capacity to defy the expectations of most observers and many prominent theories of international relations. This volume of classic essays highlights the ability of small states to counter power with superior commitment, to rely on tightly knit domestic institutions with a shared "ideology of social partnership," and to set agendas as "norm entrepreneurs." The volume is organized around themes such as how and why small states defy expectations of realist approaches to the study of power; the agenda-setting capacity of smaller powers in international society and in regional governance structures such as the European Union; and how small states and representatives from these societies play the role of norm entrepreneurs in world politics -- from the promotion of sustainable solutions to innovative humanitarian programs and policies.. |
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... powers” (French puissance, German Macht, Russian derzhava, Spanish/Portuguese poder, etc.). While this noun is still used for a diaerent category of states, namely “great powers” (and, more rarely, also for “middle powers”), “small powers ...
... powers sometimes came to be known, through processes that still await their researcher, as “middle powers” (see Holbraad 1984). Those powers that were deemed too inconsequential to be so included came to be known as “small states.” In ...
... small states are defined by what they are not. Moreover, smallness is a comparative concept: micro-states are smaller than small states, and small states are smaller than middle or great powers, but with regard to what and how much ...
... small state to being a microstate. By contrast, when, in the same period ... small state, because the larger states did not really expect a small state to have a ... powers, small states have often been confused with weak states. Yet, the ...
... small and great does not coincide with the distinction between strong and ... small states possessing great issue-specific power (for example the influence of ... powers and small states, and where these categories first and foremost are ...
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Refining the Small State Debate | 147 |
Small State Capacity in International Relations | 229 |
Learning from Lilliput | 286 |
Annotated Bibliography | 293 |
Contributors | 319 |
Index | 321 |