Transatlantic international relations (IR) theory has more or less neglected the international
relations of East Asia. This relative neglect has come in different forms: excluding East Asian …

The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable
water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas …

With the creation of a common foreign and security policy (CFSP), the EU has entered the
realm of power politics. Although the ambition to become a great power has been frequently …

Much time and enormous amount of academic effort has gone into defining small states and
their position in world politics. This endeavor, sadly, has produced very little agreement. It is …

The article sets out to further an understanding of how domestic politics can impact on
foreign policy change in small states. The case of interest is the change that occurred in the …

Mainstream international relations (IR) literature has long treated small states as marginal
actors who exist on the periphery of global affairs. For many years, scholars have struggled …

This paper presents an analytical framework as an adaptation for the regional security
complex theory (RSCT). Following the end of the Cold War, regional systems have become …

This paper deals with the concept of “small states” as opposed to “great powers”. Both
concepts are considered to be ideal types with peculiar behaviour characteristics. It is …

Conceptions of international relations have traditionally revolved around the importance,
and therefore the powers, of the great powers. The story of international relations has been …

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape
of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers …