Handbook on the Politics of Small States

Godfrey Baldacchino, Anders Wivel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2020
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78811-292-5 (ISBN)

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Comprehensive 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.

Contributions from key scholars challenge the idealization of the small state, disputing views that these states are inconsequential at best and a nuisance to world politics at worst. Offering evidence-based discussions on their importance to the global political order, the Handbook explores how small states 'do' politics, the major opportunities and challenges of policy-making and implementation, and how they can respond intelligently to these opportunities. Critical contemporary dilemmas are analysed, with a particular focus on the rise of nationalism, the collapse of empires, and the importance of this in relation to small state politics.

Political science, diplomacy and international relations scholars, particularly those looking at small states, will find this a rich reference work. Case studies from all major world regions used in this Handbook will also make it a beneficial read for practitioners and policy-makers of small states.

Contributors include: D. Anckar, G. Baldacchino, E. Berg, S. Bianchini, L. Buszynski, A. Chong, J. Connell, J. Corbett, D. Criekemans, J.S. Elinardóttir, J. Eriksson, J. Gurol, F.S. Hansen, T. Long, M. Maass, R. Pace, D. Panke, R. Pedi, G. Prinsen, T. Randma-Liiv, E. Rodrigues Sanches, K. Sarapuu, G. Seibert, B. Thorhallsson, W.P. Veenendaal, K. Vits, L.E. Wehner, A. Wivel

Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta, Malta and Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCING SMALL STATES
1 Small states: concepts and theories 2
Godfrey Baldacchino and Anders Wivel
2 Small states: surviving, perishing and proliferating through history 20
Matthias Maass
3 Small states: politics and policies 38
Dag Anckar
4 Small states: public management and policy-making 55
Külli Sarapuu and Tiina Randma-Liiv
5 Small states: challenges of political economy 70
Godfrey Baldacchino
6 Small states: challenges and coping strategies in the UN
General Assembly 83
Diana Panke and Julia Gurol

PART II EUROPE
7 Small states in Europe 99
Anders Wivel
8 The Nordic states: keeping cool at the top? 113
Baldur Thorhallsson and Jóna Sólveig Elínardóttir
9 The non-identical Mediterranean island states: Cyprus and Malta 131
Roderick Pace
10 Politics of the four European microstates: Andorra,
Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino 150
Wouter P. Veenendaal
11 Small states in Europe as a buffer between East and West 168
Revecca Pedi
12 Small states of the Balkans: after Yugoslavia and its ‘third way’ 189
Stefano Bianchini

PART III MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
13 Mediation by small states: Norway and Sweden in the Israeli–
Palestinian conflict 207
Jacob Eriksson
14 Politics and economy in small African island states: comparing
Cabo Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe 222
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches and Gerhard Seibert

PART IV CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
15 Small states in Central America 242
Tom Long
16 The foreign policy of South American small powers in regional
and international politics 259
Leslie E. Wehner
17 Island versus region: the politics of small states in the Caribbean 278
Godfrey Baldacchino

PART V ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
18 Small states in post-Soviet Central Asia: navigating between
two great power neighbours 294
Flemming Splidsboel Hansen
19 Enlarging Singapore’s foreign policy: becoming intermediary
for diplomacy, transportation and information 311
Alan Chong
20 Small states, China and the South China Sea 329
Leszek Buszynski
21 Small states in the Pacific 343
Jack Corbett and John Connell

PART VI BEYOND SOVEREIGNTY? SEMI/
NON-SOVEREIGN SMALL STATES AND TERRITORIES
22 Small, subnational jurisdictions 362
Gerard Prinsen
23 Exploring de facto state agency: negotiation power, international
engagement and patronage 379
Eiki Berg and Kristel Vits
24 Protodiplomacy: sub-state diplomacy and wannabe states 395
David Criekemans

Index 411

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2019
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-78811-292-X / 178811292X
ISBN-13	978-1-78811-292-5 / 9781788112925
Zustand	Neuware