Small States and Security in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367535520 / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str.

Opis

This book studies how domestic contestation influences the security policy of small states within the European Union and NATO.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 – Introduction: Small states in European Security  Chapter 2 – Towards a Framework for Analysis: Facing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation  Part I Strategic culture or individual influence  Chapter 3 – Strategic Culture and Small States: From Norm Breakers to Norm Takers to Norm Shapers  Chapter 4 – Small and Impressionable? Strategic Cultures of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Evolving International Contexts  Chapter 5 – Domestic Contestations in Lithuania’s Foreign and Security Policy: Who Calls the Shots?  Part II Participation in overseas missions  Chapter 6 – The Netherlands’ approach to EU CSDP and UN Peacekeeping Operations: Assessing a "Big Small Power" in European and Global Security  Chapter 7 – Only just making up the numbers? Understanding European small state participation in multilateral maritime security operations  Part III Relations to big players  Chapter 8 – From rebellious and reluctant allies to reliant partners: Denmark and Iceland in the transatlantic relationship  Chapter 9 – Small Country and European Security: The Case of Bulgarian-Russia Relations since 2014  Chapter 10 – "Estonisation" and its limits: threat perceptions and integration in the EU and NATO  Part IV Internal security  Chapter 11 – Latvia’s and Luxembourg’s EU Council presidencies in the formulation of the Refugee Relocation Scheme: between national and international policymaking  Chapter 12 – Europeanisation of Non-military Dimensions of Security. The Case of Norway

O autorze

Tomáš Weiss is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Prague.

Geoffrey Edwards is Emeritus Reader in European Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies in the University of Cambridge, an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and a Jean Monnet chair.