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Small States in the International System - At Peace and at War (Hardcover)
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Small States in the International System - At Peace and at War (Hardcover)
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Small States in the International System addresses the little
understood foreign policy choices of small states. It outlines a
theoretical perspective of small states that starts from the
assumption that small states are not just large states writ small.
In essence, small states behave differently from larger and more
powerful states. As such, this book compares three theories of
foreign policy choice: realism (and its emphasis on structural
factors), domestic factors, and social constructivism (emphasizing
norms and identity) across seven focused case studies from around
the world in the 20th Century. Through an examination of the
foreign policy choices of Switzerland, Ireland, Finland, Norway,
the Netherlands, Belgium, Ethiopia, Somalia, Vietnam, Bolivia and
Paraguay, this book concludes that realist theories built on great
power politics cannot adequately explain small state behavior in
most instances. When small states are threatened by larger,
belligerent states, the small state behaves along the predictions
of social constructivist theory; when small states threaten each
other, they behave along realist predictions.
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