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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... social constructivism, respectively, in order to focus directly on the issues at stake rather than on debates about labels and wider patterns of thought, we list them simply as “capabilities,” “institutions,” and “relations ...
... social analysts working in fields other than IR would rest content with an analysis of social organizations or indeed institutions that looked only at one particular class of entities. When considered from this point of view, IR ...
... social power” in the international system. The book is rounded oa by Christine Ingebritsen's concluding chapter on the state of the art and on the potential for “Learning from Lilliput.” Since a choice had to be made for this volume ...
... social science. Scientifically, analyses should be oaered for their theoretical findings rather than for their empirical ones. Let us substantiate this idea by comparing International Relations to another social science, namely social ...
... social interaction (e.g., Cox 1983). 14. General arguments of this kind always rest on a number of assumptions. We assume here that small states will have the capacity to participate (e.g. no lack of international presence due to 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 |