Small States in Europe: Challenges and OpportunitiesRoutledge, 2016 M04 1 - 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. |
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... Consequences: A Small State without Economic and Political Shelter Baldur Thorhallsson Part IV Conclusion 14. Conclusion Index Robert Steinmetz and Anders Wivel List of Tables 4.1 Numbers in Armed Forces ('000s), 2001.
... Consequences: A Small State without Economic and Political Shelter Baldur Thorhallsson Part IV Conclusion 14. Conclusion Index Robert Steinmetz and Anders Wivel List of Tables 4.1 Numbers in Armed Forces ('000s), 2001.
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... consequences is the conclusion that small does not necessarily mean weak, depending, of course, on circumstances: geography, the international environment and specific issues. These studies also drew attention to the importance of ...
... consequences is the conclusion that small does not necessarily mean weak, depending, of course, on circumstances: geography, the international environment and specific issues. These studies also drew attention to the importance of ...
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... consequence of the revolutions following the Cold War. The newly constructed small states that succeeded the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, faced a particular set of challenges, while at the same time their establishment ...
... consequence of the revolutions following the Cold War. The newly constructed small states that succeeded the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, faced a particular set of challenges, while at the same time their establishment ...
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... consequences, we define a small state as the weak part in an asymmetric relationship (cf. Mouritzen and Wivel 2005). According to this definition a state may be weak in one relation, but simultaneously powerful in another. For instance ...
... consequences, we define a small state as the weak part in an asymmetric relationship (cf. Mouritzen and Wivel 2005). According to this definition a state may be weak in one relation, but simultaneously powerful in another. For instance ...
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... consequences of being the weak part in an asymmetric relationship. 8 Kelstrup explicitly discusses European states, but his argument is relevant for states outside Europe as well. Second, small states today play a much more active role ...
... consequences of being the weak part in an asymmetric relationship. 8 Kelstrup explicitly discusses European states, but his argument is relevant for states outside Europe as well. Second, small states today play a much more active role ...
Contents
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Small States and the European Security and Defence Policy | |
STATES | |
Small States Power International Change and the Impact of Uncertainty | |
Regulation of the International System | |
In a League of its Own? The Netherlands as a MiddleSized EU Member | |
The Foreign Policy of Luxembourg | |
Costas Melakopides | |
A Comparison of Austrian | |
A Small State without | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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