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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... Small States in the International System International Relations (IR) is a state-centric discipline as well as a powercentered discipline, and this volume will not challenge either of those two foundations. Our aim is rather to draw ...
... state's territory or gross domestic product into account (cf. Handel 1981: 9–65; Crowards 2002). In the European context, the “bar” for small states has often been set at the population size of the Netherlands (currently 16 million ...
... state decided not to maintain its membership in the League of Nations because it did not think it could aaord it, and so it went from being a small state to being a microstate. By contrast, when, in the same period, the Norwegian state ...
... states system where we have usually studied it, but that it should rather be treated as a question of clout within what they referred to as specific issue areas, that is, small states possessing great issue-specific power (for example ...
... small states has also marked the body of literature that might be termed small state studies. In the following sections, we discuss the advancement of this literature, and what lessons can be drawn from it for ... small state INTRODUCTION 9.
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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 |