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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... larger partners to call the shots and to impose their domineering views and, of course, their selfish national interests. On institutional matters, Luxembourg always used to act together with its two Benelux partners. The concerted ...
... larger partners to call the shots and to impose their domineering views and, of course, their selfish national interests. On institutional matters, Luxembourg always used to act together with its two Benelux partners. The concerted ...
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... larger countries, which make use of this instrument in a relentless, shameless and uninhibited way. The Orwellian dictum 'some animals are more equal than others' seems to apply perfectly to the European integration process. The ...
... larger countries, which make use of this instrument in a relentless, shameless and uninhibited way. The Orwellian dictum 'some animals are more equal than others' seems to apply perfectly to the European integration process. The ...
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... system. Small states tend to be portrayed as mere pawns, which are easily disposed of and instrumentalised in the power games of their larger counterparts. The privileged status of large states implies that other, smaller,
... system. Small states tend to be portrayed as mere pawns, which are easily disposed of and instrumentalised in the power games of their larger counterparts. The privileged status of large states implies that other, smaller,
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... larger populations than what we term small states in the developed world, because 'population size is taken as a proxy of a range of other economic characteristics – all of which are deemed to bestow particular vulnerabilities on small ...
... larger populations than what we term small states in the developed world, because 'population size is taken as a proxy of a range of other economic characteristics – all of which are deemed to bestow particular vulnerabilities on small ...
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... larger states, but because the consequences of globalisation have materialised earlier and in a harsher form in small states than in larger ones. In security affairs, rather than just being consumers of security – the traditional role ...
... larger states, but because the consequences of globalisation have materialised earlier and in a harsher form in small states than in larger ones. In security affairs, rather than just being consumers of security – the traditional 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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Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities Robert Steinmetz,Dr Anders Wivel Limited preview - 2013 |
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