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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... structures, fundamentally changed over the past decades. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the ensuing collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the intensification of the European integration process in the early 1990s, the consecutive ...
... structures, fundamentally changed over the past decades. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the ensuing collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the intensification of the European integration process in the early 1990s, the consecutive ...
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... structures. For this reason they are expected to face a different set of challenges than the great powers. In essence, our definition of small states is relational: smallness is defined through the relation between the state and its ...
... structures. For this reason they are expected to face a different set of challenges than the great powers. In essence, our definition of small states is relational: smallness is defined through the relation between the state and its ...
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... Structure of the Book The overall aim of this book is to offer an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of the contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing the small states in Europe. In particular, we emphasise the ...
... Structure of the Book The overall aim of this book is to offer an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of the contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing the small states in Europe. In particular, we emphasise the ...
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... structure of the institutions is pivotal for assessing the costs and benefits of its strategic choices. Taking Scott as my point of departure, I distinguish between three ideal type organisational structures: rational, natural and open ...
... structure of the institutions is pivotal for assessing the costs and benefits of its strategic choices. Taking Scott as my point of departure, I distinguish between three ideal type organisational structures: rational, natural and open ...
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... structures are central to decisionmaking in rational organisations. Formal rules regulate and standardise expectations, thereby making it more predictable. Also, formal rules institutionalise and legitimise inequalities, thereby ...
... structures are central to decisionmaking in rational organisations. Formal rules regulate and standardise expectations, thereby making it more predictable. Also, formal rules institutionalise and legitimise inequalities, thereby ...
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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