Agency, security and governance of small states : a global perspective / edited by Thomas Kolnberger and Harlan Koff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kolnberger, Thomas, editor.

Koff, Harlan, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Small state studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

States, Small.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Thomas Kolnberger isPostdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg, Institute for History (IHIST)and Coordinator of various research projects, most recently: Military History of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in a Transnational Perspective. His fields of interest are the history of Luxembourg; small-state studies; military history; and historical and urban geography. Harlan Koff is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg; GAMMA-UL Chair in Regional Integration and Sustainability at INECOL, A.C., Mexico; Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; and Docent in Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research focuses on international development; comparative regional integration; and migration.

Contents:

Part I

small-state theory: reviewing the state of the art, Communis Opinio, and beyond

The power (politics) of the weak revisited: realism and the study of small-state foreign policy / Revecca Pedi and Anders Wivel

A theory of shelter: small-state behaviour in international relations / Baldur Thorhallsson and Sverrir Steinsson

The graded agency of small states / Iver B. Neumann

Part II

agency: the art of being governed by one's own interests

Forever small? a Longue Durée perspective on Luxembourg's extantism, governance, and security / Thomas Kolnberger

Security in the Spanish Philippines (1565-1821): shelter-seeking and secularization in an early modern colony / Eberhard Crailsheim

Negotiating smallness in three regional contexts: Belize within Central America, the Caribbean, and neighbouring Mexico / Edith Kauffer

What is a small-state security policy? 'Transpolitical propagation' in the case of Luxembourg, Singapore, and Lithuania / Antony Dabila and Thibault Fouillet

Part III

security: defining and engaging threats

Small states in the Pacific: sovereignty, vulnerability, and regionalism / Charles Hawksley and Nichole Georgeou

Security and secularization in the Pacific Islands: from great-power competition to climate change and back again / George Carter and Jack Corbett

Cape Verde and the defence and security challenges in the Atlantic corridor: the case of the approach to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) / Odair Barros-Varela

"Let's forget that Slovakia is small": GLOBSEC, status-seeking, and agency in informal elite networks / Alexander Graef

Part IV

governance: interactions between domestic and international norms, rules, and action

The rise of 'democracy' in Luxembourg's second world war government in exile: agency and leadership at a critical juncture of Luxembourg's small-state foreign policy / André Linden

Between formal and informal democracy: how the domestic politics of small states influences their security policies / Wouter Veenendaal

African small island developing states (ASIDS) and good international citizenship / Suzanne E. Graham and Marcel F. Nagar

Conclusion: insecurity of their own making? a comparative policy coherence for sustainable development analysis of small-state governance / Harlan Koff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Agency, security and governance of small states

ISBN:

9781003356011

100335601X

9781000957099

1000957098

9781000957051

1000957055

Publisher Number:

40032110061

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