Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

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Robert Steinmetz, Dr Anders Wivel
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 M03 28 - 248 pages

The effects of recent institutional change within the European Union on small states have often been overlooked. This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing small states in Europe.

Leading experts analyze the experiences of a number of small states including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Iceland, Austria and Switzerland. Each account, written to a common template, explores the challenges and opportunities faced by each state as a consequence of EU integration, and how their behaviour regarding EU integration has been characterized. In particular, the contributors emphasize the importance of power politics, institutional dynamics and lessons of the past.

Innovative and sophisticated, the study draws on the relational understanding of small states to emphasize the implications of institutional change at the European level for the smaller states and to explain how the foreign and European policies of small states in the region are affected by the European Union.

 

Contents

Devising a Strategy for Influence
15
Small States and the European Security and Defence Policy
47
Small States and Innovation
65
Small States Power International Change and the Impact
87
Regulation of the International
103
In a League of its Own? The Netherlands as a MiddleSized
117
The Foreign Policy of Luxembourg
131
Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the European Integration
147
Cyprus SmallPowerhood and the EUs Principles and Values
161
A Comparison of Austrian
181
A Small State
199
Conclusion
217
Index
227
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About the author (2013)

Robert Steinmetz, is a Press Secretary, Personal Assistant to the Minister, General Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luxembourg and Anders Wivel, is an Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Mario Hirsch. Robert Steinmetz, Anders Wivel. David Criekemans, Manuel Duran. Clive Archer, Rainer Kattel, Tarmo Kalvet, Tiina Randma-Liiv. Toms Rostoks. Plamen Pantev, Jan Rood. Jean-Marie Frentze. Mats Braun. Costas Melakopides. Jean-Marc Rickli. Baldur Thorhallsson.

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