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      Challenges and Opportunities

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      Small States in Europe book

      Challenges and Opportunities
      ByRobert Steinmetz, Anders Wivel
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 31 March 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315609348
      Pages 248
      eBook ISBN 9781315609348
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Steinmetz, R. (2010). Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities (A. Wivel, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315609348

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I Small States in Europe: Defining the Issues at Stake

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Introduction

      ByRobert Steinmetz, Anders Wivel

      chapter 2|16 pages

      From Small State to Smart State: Devising a Strategy for Influence in the European Union

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Small State Diplomacy Compared to Sub-State Diplomacy: More of the Same or Different?

      chapter 4|16 pages

      Small States and the European Security and Defence Policy

      ByClive Archer

      part |2 pages

      Part II The Challenges and Opportunities of Small European States

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Small States and Innovation

      ByRainer Kattel, Tarmo Kalvet, Tiina Randma-Liiv

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Small States, Power, International Change and the Impact of Uncertainty

      chapter 7|12 pages

      The Fluid Nature of Smallness: Regulation of the International System and the Challenges and Opportunities of Small States

      part |2 pages

      Part III The Experience of Small States with the European Union

      chapter 8|14 pages

      In a League of its Own? The Netherlands as a Middle-Sized EU Member State

      chapter 9|16 pages

      The Foreign Policy of Luxembourg

      ByJean-Marie Frentz

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the European Integration Process: Birds of a Feather Flying Apart?

      chapter 11|20 pages

      Cyprus, Small-Powerhood and the EU’s Principles and Values

      ByCostas Melakopides

      chapter 12|18 pages

      Neutrality Inside and Outside the EU: A Comparison of Austrian and Swiss Security Policies After the Cold War

      chapter 13|16 pages

      The Icelandic Crash and its Consequences: A Small State without Economic and Political Shelter

      part |2 pages

      Part IV Conclusion

      chapter 14|10 pages

      Conclusion

      ByRobert Steinmetz, Anders Wivel
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