Robert Steinmetz

Small States in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Opportunities
Redaktion: Wivel, Anders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317054306
• Artikelnr.: 44873018

Autorenporträt

Robert Steinmetz, is a Press Secretary, Personal Assistant to the Minister, General Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luxembourg and Anders Wivel, is an Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Small States in Europe: Defining the Issues at Stake; Chapter 1 Introduction
Robert Steinmetz
Anders Wivel; Chapter 2 From Small State to Smart State: Devising a Strategy for Influence in the European Union
Anders Wivel; Chapter 3 Small State Diplomacy Compared to Sub-State Diplomacy: More of the Same or Different?
David Criekemans
Manuel Duran; Chapter 4 Small States and the European Security and Defence Policy
Clive Archer; Part II The Challenges and Opportunities of Small European States; Chapter 5 Small States and Innovation
Rainer Kattel
Tarmo Kalvet
Tiina Randma-Liiv; Chapter 6 Small States
Power
International Change and the Impact of Uncertainty
Toms Rostoks; Chapter 7 The Fluid Nature of Smallness: Regulation of the International System and the Challenges and Opportunities of Small States
Plamen Pantev; Part III The Experience of Small States with the European Union; Chapter 8 In a League of its Own? The Netherlands as a Middle-Sized EU Member State
Jan Rood; Chapter 9 The Foreign Policy of Luxembourg
Jean-Marie Frentz; Chapter 10 Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the European Integration Process: Birds of a Feather Flying Apart?
Mats Braun; Chapter 11 Cyprus
Small-Powerhood and the EU's Principles and Values
Costas Melakopides; Chapter 12 Neutrality Inside and Outside the EU: A Comparison of Austrian and Swiss Security Policies After the Cold War
Jean-Marc Rickli; Chapter 13 The Icelandic Crash and its Consequences: A Small State without Economic and Political Shelter
Baldur Thorhallsson; Part IV Conclusion; Chapter 14 Conclusion
Robert Steinmetz
Anders Wivel;