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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... government of each of these small states was how to wait out a crisis while making its neutrality desirable to both sides. Their power of choice lay in their capacity to convince the great-power belligerents that the costs of using ...
... government of the small state had to concentrate on the short-run possibilities. Its own estimate of the eaects of participation could not easily be impressed upon the great-power leaders, who had a large number of other intermeshed ...
... government could often exploit them to its own advantage. The following conditions were much more likely to be decided within the small state, and the more they prevailed, the better for the small state: The capacity and will to employ ...
... governments in the competition which involves the small. In this manner the small state may be said to be influential. World War II was settled in favor of the West and the Soviet Union without the active aid or opposition of the small ...
... government, often envy! Vital also stresses the e‹cacy of economic coercion, using his own country, Israel, as an example of vulnerability; the American reader, remembering Cuba, Southern Rhodesia, and, earlier, Mussolini's Italy, may ...
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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 |