Gibert, Marie V. and Grzelczyk, Virginie (2016). Non-Western small states:activists or survivors? Third World Thematics, 1 (1), pp. 1-8.
Abstract
In this introduction to the collection, we explain its focus on non-Western small states. While the terms ‘non-Western’ and ‘small states’ are problematic – we discuss these problems here – the smallness and non-Westerness of the states studied by the contributing authors set them apart in a way that has attracted little academic attention so far. They allow them to operate with fewer normative and practical constraints than their bigger, Western counterparts; offer them a wide range of (often historically forged) political ties; and force them to draw on a diversity of approaches and strategic thinking, and a creativity, that they are too rarely credited for. Non-Western small states, rather than being mere survivors constrained to the world’s periphery, are better understood as activist states intent on existing. The collection offers a range of analytical keys to make sense of these states and their role in the international scene.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2016.1231012 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Politics, History and International Relations College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Aston Centre for Europe |
Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Thematics on 04/10/16, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23802014.2016.1231012 |
Publication ISSN: | 2379-9978 |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 07:27 |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2016 14:00 | PURE Output Type: | Special issue |
Published Date: | 2016-10-04 |
Published Online Date: | 2016-10-04 |
Accepted Date: | 2016-08-23 |
Submitted Date: | 2016-06-15 |
Authors: |
Gibert, Marie V.
Grzelczyk, Virginie ( ![]() |