Small States in International Politics
The study of small states may be perceived, alternatively, as a distinctly separate discipline within the broader subject area of international politics, or, as one particular approach to the study of international politics in general. So may the study of the 'new territories'. In this cha...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/001083677400900116 2024-06-16T07:35:03+00:00 Small States in International Politics A Polar-Political Perspective Skagestad, Gunnar 1974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001083677400900116 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001083677400900116 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Cooperation and Conflict volume 9, issue 1, page 185-193 ISSN 0010-8367 1460-3691 journal-article 1974 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/001083677400900116 2024-05-19T13:10:03Z The study of small states may be perceived, alternatively, as a distinctly separate discipline within the broader subject area of international politics, or, as one particular approach to the study of international politics in general. So may the study of the 'new territories'. In this chapter, the two perspectives combine. Presenting the 'new territories studies' as a novel approach to the traditional small states studies, the chapter discusses the practical/political possibilities and limitations inherent in the small states' situation and is also an attempt to contribute toward an improved theoretical basis for the study of small-state behavior. The empirical material is mainly the developments in inter-state relations which have taken place in the Antarctic (the 'Antarctic Model'); the Arctic situation is also presented for com parative purposes. The author arrives at certain guarded generalizations, where the need for inter national cooperation emerges as a major contingent factor regarding the validity of descriptive and normative hypothesizing on small state behavior. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic SAGE Publications Antarctic Arctic The Antarctic Cooperation and Conflict 9 1 185 193 |
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The study of small states may be perceived, alternatively, as a distinctly separate discipline within the broader subject area of international politics, or, as one particular approach to the study of international politics in general. So may the study of the 'new territories'. In this chapter, the two perspectives combine. Presenting the 'new territories studies' as a novel approach to the traditional small states studies, the chapter discusses the practical/political possibilities and limitations inherent in the small states' situation and is also an attempt to contribute toward an improved theoretical basis for the study of small-state behavior. The empirical material is mainly the developments in inter-state relations which have taken place in the Antarctic (the 'Antarctic Model'); the Arctic situation is also presented for com parative purposes. The author arrives at certain guarded generalizations, where the need for inter national cooperation emerges as a major contingent factor regarding the validity of descriptive and normative hypothesizing on small state behavior. |
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