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Author: Commonwealth Advisory Group for Updating the 1985 Vulnerability Report
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780850925111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report provides an analysis of key issues concerning small states' security and development. It sets out a series of recommendations to counteract vulnerability arising from such factors as globalization, environmental degradation and global warming, and international crime.
Author: Matthias Maass
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780719082733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the state level analysing factors that determine small state survival and proliferation. It demonstrates theoretically, quantitatively, and historically that small state survival depends first-and-foremost on the structure and particular features of the states system in which the small state finds itself.
Author: Godfrey Baldacchinoel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-03-28
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1788112938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive and timely, this Handbook identifies the key characteristics, challenges and opportunities involved in the politics of small states across the globe today. Acknowledging the historical legacies behind these states, the chapters unpack the costs and benefits of different political models for small states.
Author: Laurent Goetschel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1998-10-31
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780792382805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall States in and outside the European Union offers a broad overview of the small states problematic in Europe. It touches upon definition issues, history, security policy, neutrality, EU institutional aspects and also includes contributors from Central and Eastern European countries. It presents a thorough analysis of different scenarios for EU institutional reform and their repercussions on the influence of small member states. The comparative results are visualized in tables. The work contains several contributions from practitioners who give insight into policy games and issues of national sensitivity not usually covered by purely scholarly publications. The European environment has changed dramatically through the processes of regional integration and rising interdependence. Relations between European states both inside and outside the EU are governed as never before by rules, norms, and fixed procedures. The book investigates the consequences of these developments on the foreign and security policy of small states. Academics and professionals from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as from the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, elaborate on these issues. Institutional regulations and traditional power politics as well as the foreign and security policy traditions of the states concerned, including the question of neutrality, are investigated. In addition, the book identifies the main interests of small states in today's Europe and offers an overview of different strategies these states apply in the realm of foreign and security policy. The book is interesting for the case studies it offers as well as for the reflections it contains regarding fundamental questions of the essence of statehood in today's Europe.
Author: Anne-Marie Brady
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 3030188035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power. New Zealand’s foreign policy challenges are similar with those faced by many other small states in the world today and are ideally suited to help inform theoretical debates on the role of small states in the changing international system. The book analyses how a small state such as New Zealand is adjusting to the changing geopolitical, geo-economic, environment. The book includes perspectives from some of New Zealand's leading as well as emerging commentators on New Zealand foreign policy.
Author: Sándor Fabian
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781508490524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thought provoking essay on the possible implications of irregular warfare in national military strategy.
Author: Clive Archer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1317755359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains what ‘small’ states are and explores their current security challenges, in general terms and through specific examples. It reflects the shift from traditional security definitions emphasizing defence and armaments, to new security concerns such as economic, societal and environmental security where institutional cooperation looms larger. These complex issues, linked with traditional power relations and new types of actors, need to be tackled with due regard to democracy and good governance. Key policy challenges for small states are examined and applied in the regional case studies. The book deals mainly with the current experience and recent past of such states but also offers insights for their future policies. Although many of the states covered are European, the study also includes African, Caribbean and Asian small states. Their particular interest and relevance is outlined, as is the connection between their security challenges and their smallness. Policy lessons for other states are then sought. The book is the first in-depth, multi-continent study of security as an aspect of small state governance today. It is novel in placing the security dilemmas of small states in the context of wider ideas on international and institutional change, and in dealing with non-European states and regions.
Author: Christine Ingebritsen
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0295802103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmaller nations have a special place in the international system, with a striking capacity to defy the expectations of most observers and many prominent theories of international relations. This volume of classic essays highlights the ability of small states to counter power with superior commitment, to rely on tightly knit domestic institutions with a shared "ideology of social partnership," and to set agendas as "norm entrepreneurs." The volume is organized around themes such as how and why small states defy expectations of realist approaches to the study of power; the agenda-setting capacity of smaller powers in international society and in regional governance structures such as the European Union; and how small states and representatives from these societies play the role of norm entrepreneurs in world politics -- from the promotion of sustainable solutions to innovative humanitarian programs and policies..
Author: Andrew Fenton Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780333717080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Bunse
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0230234348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall States and EU Governance shows that the EU's rotating Council presidency and small states' capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and influence in internal market and foreign policy issues.
