Maass, Matthias. <br/><br/>
Small States in World Politics :  The Story of Small State Survival, 1648-2016. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (276 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526108531 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National security-History.<br/>States, Small-History.<br/>States, Small-Foreign relations.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UA10.5 .M337 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.101