Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

Anders Wivel; Robert Steinmetz

Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

Anders Wivel (Editor), Robert Steinmetz (Editor)

Centre for European Politics

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Abstract

The effects of recent institutional change within the European Union on small states have often been overlooked. This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing small states in Europe. Leading experts analyze the experiences of a number of small states including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Iceland, Austria and Switzerland. Each account, written to a common template, explores the challenges and opportunities faced by each state as a consequence of EU integration, and how their behaviour regarding EU integration has been characterized. In particular, the contributors emphasize the importance of power politics, institutional dynamics and lessons of the past. Innovative and sophisticated, the study draws on the relational understanding of small states to emphasize the implications of institutional change at the European level for the smaller states and to explain how the foreign and European policies of small states in the region are affected by the European Union.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Storbritannien & USA
Publisher	Ashgate
Number of pages	248
ISBN (Print)	9780754677826
ISBN (Electronic)	9780754695301
Publication status	Published - 2010

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