Small States and International Security: Europe and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780415791083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016

Clive Archer; Alyson J. K. Bailes; Anders Wivel

Opis

This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future security challenges facing small states and provides a comparative perspective.

Recenzje

This thought provoking book represents a pioneer attempt to advance the research of small state security in contemporary circumstances where economic and environmental challenges often overshadow traditional security concerns.
- Hrvoje Butković, Institute for Development and International Relations

Spis treści

Section I: Small State Security Revisited: History, Concepts, Theory 1. Setting the Scene: Small States and International Security, Anders Wivel, Alyson JK Bailes and Clive Archer, 2. Small states, survival and strategy, Alyson Bailes, Jean-Marc Rickli and Baldur Thorhallsson, 3. Economic Security and Size, Richard Griffiths, 4. Societal Security and Small States, Alyson JK Bailes, 5. Small States and Environmental Security, Auður H. Ingolfsdóttir, Section II: Small State Security in Europe, 6. The Nordic States, Clive Archer, 7. Security Concerns of the Baltic States in the 21^st Century, Mindaugas Jurkynas, 8. Security Challenges in the Western Balkans: Building "soft" security after conflict, Višnja Samardžija, 9. Georgia and Moldova: Caught in the Outskirts of Europe? Maria Ruxandra Lupu Dinesen and Anders Wivel, 10. The Security of the European Micro-states, Archie W. Simpson, Section III: Comparative Insights 11. Botswana as a Small Developmental State, Ian Taylor, 12. Small State Security in Asia: Political and Temporal Constructions of Vulnerability, Alan Chong Chia Siong, 13. What Caribbean post-2015: Developmental and/or Fragile? Old versus New Security? Timothy Shaw 14. The Security Concerns of Designed Spaces: Size Matters, Godfrey Baldacchino