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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... role in some of the more remarkable breakthroughs in the history of European integration. As early as 1970, Pierre Werner was the author of the 'Werner Plan' – the roadmap to the common currency. Both Gaston Thorn and Jacques Santer ...
... role in some of the more remarkable breakthroughs in the history of European integration. As early as 1970, Pierre Werner was the author of the 'Werner Plan' – the roadmap to the common currency. Both Gaston Thorn and Jacques Santer ...
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... role of 'honest broker' and it is known as staunch supporter of the 'méthode communautaire', based on the same idea, which has proven to be the best shield for smaller member countries against the relentless attempts by their larger ...
... role of 'honest broker' and it is known as staunch supporter of the 'méthode communautaire', based on the same idea, which has proven to be the best shield for smaller member countries against the relentless attempts by their larger ...
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... role as honest broker. In its almost 60 year history of participation in the integration process, the country, invoking the vital national interests at stake, has made use of its veto power only twice. This is in stark contrast to the ...
... role as honest broker. In its almost 60 year history of participation in the integration process, the country, invoking the vital national interests at stake, has made use of its veto power only twice. This is in stark contrast to the ...
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... role became even more important after '9/11', those EU countries who had not given up the hope that they might eventually succeed in obliging the three renitent countries to join their cause in fighting money laundering, made relentless ...
... role became even more important after '9/11', those EU countries who had not given up the hope that they might eventually succeed in obliging the three renitent countries to join their cause in fighting money laundering, made relentless ...
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... role they play in international security and organisations. There are three reasons why studying small states is important in understanding contemporary international relations in general and European politics in particular. First, the ...
... role they play in international security and organisations. There are three reasons why studying small states is important in understanding contemporary international relations in general and European politics in particular. First, the ...
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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