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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... studies were on top of the scholarly agenda, and realism with its focus on power emerged as the dominant theory of International Relations. After 1945, the small states' position in the new international organizations such as the United ...
... international environment. Besides the missing agreed-definition of small states, there was, as Amstrup (1976: 178) put it, an “astonishing lack of cumulation” in small state studies. Another scholar lamented that the study of small ...
... international institutions and in particular with their quest for a new international economic order in the 1970s ... communication and transportation as well as the liberalization of the movement of goods, services, capital, and even ...
... international relations theory” (Jackson/Rosberg 1982: 24). The authors claim that, at the time of their writing, some de jure sub-Saharan African states would de facto not have qualified as states because they did not eaectively hold a ...
... International Relations has largely evolved by debates: when in the wake of World War II realism (and later neorealism) superseded the idealist school of thought, power capabilities and security issues constituted the main concern in ...
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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 |