Handbook on the Politics of Small States

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I INTRODUCING SMALL STATES
1. Small states: concepts and theories
2. Small states: surviving, perishing and proliferating through history
3. Small states: politics and policies
4. Small states: public management and policy-making
5. Small states: challenges of political economy
6. Small states: challenges and coping strategies in the UN General Assembly
PART II EUROPE
7. Small states in Europe
8. The Nordic states: keeping cool at the top?
9. The non-identical Mediterranean island states: Cyprus and Malta
10. Politics of the four European microstates: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino
11. Small states in Europe as a buffer between East and West
12. Small states of the Balkans: after Yugoslavia and its ‘third way’
PART III MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
13. Mediation by small states: Norway and Sweden in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
14. Politics and economy in small African island states: comparing Cabo Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe
PART IV CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
15. Small states in Central America
16. The foreign policy of South American small powers in regional and international politics
17. Island versus region: the politics of small states in the Caribbean
PART V ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
18. Small states in post-Soviet Central Asia: navigating between two great power neighbours
19. Enlarging Singapore’s foreign policy: becoming intermediary for diplomacy, transportation and information
20. Small states, China and the South China Sea
21. Small states in the Pacific
PART VI BEYOND SOVEREIGNTY? SEMI/NON-SOVEREIGN SMALL STATES AND TERRITORIES
22. Small, subnational jurisdictions
23. Exploring de facto state agency: negotiation power, international engagement and patronage
24. Protodiplomacy: sub-state diplomacy and wannabe states
Index