Small States and Security in Europe: Between National and International Policymaking

ISBN-13: 9780367535513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str.

Tomás Weiss; Geoffrey Edwards

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