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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"What is the story behind the paradoxical survival of small and weak states in a world of great powers and crude power politics? And what explains the dramatic rise and fall in the number of states overtime, following no consistent trend and not showing an immediately obvious direction or pattern? The answers lie at the system-level: Small states survival is shaped by the international states system. Small state survival and proliferation is determined first and foremost by features of and dynamics created at the states system. As the states system changes and evolves the chances for small states to survive or proliferate change as well. In fact, a quantitive investigation confirms this, showing that over the course of more than 3ư centuries, the number of small states did fluctuate widely and at times dramatically. In sum, the small state security is shaped by exogenous, systemic factors, not by small states' own foreign policies."-- Provided by publisher. |
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""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, 1648â#x80;#x93;1814""; ""4 Small state survival in a system of collective hegemony: the concert system, 1815â#x80;#x93;1918 ""; ""5 Small state survival and proliferation in twentieth-century systems of collective security and global governance, 1919â#x80;#x93;2016"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
States, Small -- History.
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States, Small. |
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History. |
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States, Small -- Foreign relations.
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States, Small -- Foreign relations. |
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National security -- History.
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National security. |
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World politics -- History.
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World politics. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Maass, Matthias. Small states in world politics. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 0719082730 9780719082733 (OCoLC)964377329 |
| ISBN |
1526108534 (electronic book) |
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9781526108531 (electronic book) |
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0719082730 |
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9780719082733 |
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