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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... effects for the midget between. Its economic success is inseparable from its openness to the world. Having joined the European adventure as a founding member, it benefits from an intimate knowledge of the Community machinery's internal ...
... effects for the midget between. Its economic success is inseparable from its openness to the world. Having joined the European adventure as a founding member, it benefits from an intimate knowledge of the Community machinery's internal ...
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... effects are almost impossible to distinguish from the calculations and perceptions of policy makers. Thus, the cutoff point between big and small states is rarely self-evident, and accordingly there is no consensus on what constitutes a ...
... effects are almost impossible to distinguish from the calculations and perceptions of policy makers. Thus, the cutoff point between big and small states is rarely self-evident, and accordingly there is no consensus on what constitutes a ...
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... effects do not end with institutionalisation. In the European Union, small states are at the same time more dependent on European integration than the great powers and less able to influence the outcome of treaty negotiations. Typically ...
... effects do not end with institutionalisation. In the European Union, small states are at the same time more dependent on European integration than the great powers and less able to influence the outcome of treaty negotiations. Typically ...
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... effect has been to undermine the central position of the Commission in EU policy-making (Kurpas et al. 2008: 31; Peterson 2008: 763). This is a problem for small states which have traditionally viewed the Commission as protector of ...
... effect has been to undermine the central position of the Commission in EU policy-making (Kurpas et al. 2008: 31; Peterson 2008: 763). This is a problem for small states which have traditionally viewed the Commission as protector of ...
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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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