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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Christine Ingebritsen, Iver Neumann, Sieglinde Gstöhl. sequence of events, comparative interest, and so forth. Those are not our primary concerns in this volume, however. While our three approaches have an a‹nity to (neo)realism ...
... interests and obligations, to reconcile its means and its ends.” A similar sense of priority is on display in the work of the cuddly realists of the English School of International Relations, as Watson (1982: 198) writes in his book on ...
... interest in Balkan politics in the 1990s (cf. Schwegmann 2001). One particularly poignant branch of theorizing that stresses a managerial great-power role is hegemonic stability theory. Hegemony exists where one power acts as the primus ...
... interests into account. The great power is thus present even when absent; it exerts power in settings that it does not even know exist. It governs from afar. In addition, other great powers will, at least in principle, recognize its ...
... interest, the nature of a state's environment, or the cohesion and support of its population. Vital argues that small states acting alone face high (and rising) costs of independence. They have the choice of three broad policies: a ...
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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 |