The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe

Size, Identity and International Relations since 1800

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29991-7 (ISBN)

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Rather than simply assuming that some states are small and others are big, The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe delves deep into the construction of different size-based hierarchies in Europe and explores the way Europeans have thought about their own state’s size and that of their continental neighbours since the early 19th century. By positing that ideas about size are intimately connected with both basic discourses about a state’s identity and policy discourses about the range of options most appropriate to that state, this multi-contributor volume presents a novel way of thinking about what makes one state, in the eyes of both its own inhabitants and those of others, different from others, and what effects these perceived differences have had, and continue to have, on domestic, European, and global politics.

Bringing together an international team of historians and political scientists, this nuanced and sophisticated study examines the connections between shifting ideas about a state’s (relative) size, competing notions of national interest and mission, and international policy in modern Europe and beyond.

Samuël Kruizinga is Senior Lecturer in Military and Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He recently edited, along with Ruud van Dijk, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Rimko van der Maar, Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A Small Country on the Global Scene (2018).

Introduction, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
1. Belittling Spain: Hispanophobia and the Mirror Image of Greatness, Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2. Dealing with Smallness in Hasbsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia in the late-19th and early-20th century, Adrian Brisku (Charles University, Czech Republic and University of Vienna, Austria)
3. Smallness and the East-West Binary in Nationalism Studies: Belgium and Romania in the Long 19th Century, Raul Carstocea (University of Flensburg, Germany) & Maarten Van Ginderachter (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
4. 'Poor Little Belgium': Food Aid and the Image of Belgian Victimhood in the United States, Marjet Brolsma & Samuël Kruizinga (both University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
5. Science, Health and American Money: Small-State Strategies in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Denmark, Elisabeth Van Meer (College of Charleston, USA), Casper Andersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) & Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
6. Neutral news: Forging a Small States’ Transnational Media Network, 1920 - 1940, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
7. ‘Whoever Says That Serbia Is Small, Is Lying!’: Serbia, Ontological (In)Security and the Unbearable Smallness of Being, Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
8. Iceland's Smallness: Acceptance or Denial?, Baldur Þórhallsson & Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (both University of Iceland, Iceland)
10. Great Britain and Little Ireland: Reimagining British and Irish relations in BIPA, Brexit and Beyond, Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus University, Denmark)
11. From David to Goliath? The Question of Size in Israel's Identity Politics, Alexei Tsinovoi (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
12. Conclusions and Outlook, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) & Karen Gram-Skjoldager (Aarhus University, Denmark)
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Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-29991-X / 135029991X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29991-7 / 9781350299917
Zustand	Neuware