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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... considered to run counter to its vital interests. (The financial sector contributes more than one third of the country's GDP, makes for almost 40 percent of tax revenues and employs more than 10 percent of its work force.) It did so ...
... considered to run counter to its vital interests. (The financial sector contributes more than one third of the country's GDP, makes for almost 40 percent of tax revenues and employs more than 10 percent of its work force.) It did so ...
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... considered a crime in most jurisdictions, tax avoidance is deemed quite acceptable in tax havens, because it amounts to use of tax-efficient arrangements and exploiting loopholes in the legislations to minimise the overall level of tax ...
... considered a crime in most jurisdictions, tax avoidance is deemed quite acceptable in tax havens, because it amounts to use of tax-efficient arrangements and exploiting loopholes in the legislations to minimise the overall level of tax ...
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... considered to co-operate sufficiently in tax evasion cases. In a public statement it welcomed Luxembourg's 'swift implementation' of its standards. This case study is quite revealing. It shows that, ultimately, small states have no real ...
... considered to co-operate sufficiently in tax evasion cases. In a public statement it welcomed Luxembourg's 'swift implementation' of its standards. This case study is quite revealing. It shows that, ultimately, small states have no real ...
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... considered great powers, because they are all able to change the conditions for policy-making in the area through their actions: Should the United States choose to move all of its troops from the European continent or to leave NATO, or ...
... considered great powers, because they are all able to change the conditions for policy-making in the area through their actions: Should the United States choose to move all of its troops from the European continent or to leave NATO, or ...
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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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Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities Robert Steinmetz,Anders Wivel Limited preview - 2010 |
Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities Robert Steinmetz,Dr Anders Wivel Limited preview - 2013 |
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