Small States in World Politics : The Story of Small State Survival, 1648-2016.

Cover -- Small states in world politics -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing small state survival as a historical phenomenon -- 2 Defining and quantifying the small state -- 3 Power politics and small state survival: the classic balance of power, 1648-1814 -- 4 Small state survival in a system of collective hegemony: the concert system, 1815-1918 -- 5 Small state survival and proliferation in twentieth-century systems of collective security and global governance, 1919-2016 -- 6 The story of small state survival: past, present, and future -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book focuses on the state level analysing factors that determine small state survival and proliferation. It demonstrates theoretically, quantitatively, and historically that small state survival depends first-and-foremost on the structure and particular features of the states system in which the small state finds itself.

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