What is special about small states? How do they adapt their
policies and patterns of governance to meet turbulent times such as
a new security environment and the international financial crisis?
Answers to these and further questions are provided by experts.
What are the constraints on and opportunities of governance of
small states in an interdependent and increasingly turbulent global
setting? How do small states deal with radical changes in the
international environment? What is the role of political
institutions in facilitating and constraining policy responses to a
rapidly changing international environment? How can political
leadership contribute to stability in times of change? This book
seeks to answer these questions by taking a comparative perspective
on the processes of change and adaptation in the governance of
Norway and Slovakia. These two small European states with highly
open economies have been exposed to the same set of global
turbulences related to post Cold War changes in the security
environment and the global financial crisis; they are also facing
internal challenges that spring from rapidly rising expectations
while demographic shifts put pressure on their welfare systems.
Their governance structures and processes are informed by their
different political-administrative cultures, different history and
levels of stability of democratic governance structures and,
indeed, by their different modes of attachment to the European
Union and other regional integration frameworks. These differences
and a comparative approach in exploring the questions raised above
can shed light not only on the specific forms of adaptation of
governance structures in two small European states, but also
generate insights into the role of integration structures in
facilitating and constraining change.
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