The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience

✍ Scribed by Andrew F. Cooper, Timothy M. Shaw (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 311
Series: International Political Economy Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
The Diplomacies of Small States at the Start of the Twenty-first Century: How Vulnerable? How Resilient?....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Thucydides or Kissinger? A Critical Review of Smaller State Diplomacy....Pages 21-40
Small but Smart: Small States in the Global System....Pages 41-64
Singapore and the Soft Power Experience....Pages 65-80
Dependency Governance and Future Political Development in the Non-Independent Caribbean....Pages 81-95
The Diplomacy of Caribbean Community States: Searching for Resilience....Pages 96-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Can Small States Choose Their Own Size? The Case of a Nordic State — Iceland....Pages 119-142
PetroCaribe and CARICOM: Venezuela’s Resource Diplomacy and its Impact on Small State Regional Cooperation....Pages 143-159
The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement: Impediment or Development Opportunity for CARICOM SIDS?....Pages 160-177
From Afterthought to Centre Stage: The Caribbean and the Summit of the Americas Process....Pages 178-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Bringing an Elephant into the Room: Small African State Diplomacy in the WTO....Pages 195-206
Confronting Vulnerability through Resilient Diplomacy: Antigua and the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute with the United States....Pages 207-218
The Path to ‘International Finance’: Bringing (Caribbean) Offshore Financial Centres In; Attenuating the Western Grand Narrative....Pages 219-243
Cultural Industries and Cultural Policy in the Context of Globalisation: An Agenda for SIDS....Pages 244-263
The Caribbean Confronts the OECD: Tax Competition and Diplomacy....Pages 264-278
Afterword: Vulnerability as a Condition, Resilience as a Strategy....Pages 279-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-291

✦ Subjects

Political Economy; Comparative Politics; International Relations; Diplomacy; Political Science; Social Sciences, general

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