Ebook: Small States in the International System: At Peace and at War
Author: Neal G. Jesse John R. Dreyer
- Tags: International & World Politics, Arms Control, Diplomacy, Security, Trades & Tariffs, Treaties, African, Asian, Australian & Oceanian, Canadian, Caribbean & Latin American, European, Middle Eastern, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, History & Theory, Political Science, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, National & International Security, Specific Topics, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History, Political Science, Social Sciences, N
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Language: English
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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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