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Sharing the burden? : NATO and its second-tier powers
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ISBN: 9781442615595 9781442647503 1442615591 1442647507 Year: 2014 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO's middle powers have been pressured into shouldering an increasing share of the costs of the transatlantic alliance. The author rejects the claim that countries like Canada have shirked their responsibilities within NATO. Using a range of measures that go beyond troop numbers and defence budgets to include peacekeeping commitments, foreign economic assistance, and contributions to NATO's rapid reaction forces and infrastructure, the author argues that, proportionally, Canada's NATO commitments in the 1990s rivalled those of the alliance's major powers. At the same time, he demonstrates that Canadian policy was driven by strong normative principles to assist failed and failing states rather than a desire to ride the coat-tails of the United States, as is often presumed.

The national security of small states in a changing world.
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ISBN: 0714643394 0714647861 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Frank Cass


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The survival of small states : studies in small power/great power conflict
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ISBN: 0192153455 9780192153456 Year: 1971 Publisher: London Oxford university


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Autonomy and islands : a global study of the factors that determine island autonomy.
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ISBN: 9789517654067 Year: 2007 Publisher: Åbo Åbo akademi university press


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Offshore census : citizens of the state of Sabotage
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ISBN: 3709105331 370910534X 9786613570796 1280392878 Year: 2011 Publisher: Wien [Austria] : Springer,

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State of Sabotage was founded as a sovereign state on the uninhabited Finnish island Harakka by the Austrian artist Robert Jelinek in August 2003. They have a flag, stamps, coins, and an anthem. But particularly the passport (designed by Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig) triggered a dynamism which catapulted the artists' state all of a sudden into the field of political reality. State of Sabotage was de facto recognized by Slovenia, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, and Italy. ""Offshore"" is a tribute to the some 14,000 citizens. The book contains a cultural topography by Irina Ulrike A


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When Right Makes Might : Rising Powers and World Order
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ISBN: 1501730312 1501730304 1501730320 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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"Analyzes the question of whether great powers choose to accommodate, contain, or confront a rising power depends on the legitimacy of the challenger's expansionist aims"--


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State and revolution in Finland
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ISBN: 9004386173 9004323368 Year: 2018 Publisher: Brill

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By analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-first century world, is concretely studied by putting the abortive Finnish revolution of 1917-18 into a long historical and a broad comparative perspective. In the former respect the revolution appears as a tragic culmination in the unfolding of a small European state. In the latter respect it appears as one of those crises that new states experienced when they emerged from the turmoils of the First World War. This second edition inlcudes a new Postscript.


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Beyond great powers and hegemons
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ISBN: 0804781109 9780804781107 0804771634 9780804771634 9780804771634 9780804771641 0804771642 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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This book adds a new dimension to the discussion of the relationship between the great powers and the weaker states that align with them—or not. Previous studies have focused on the role of the larger (or super) power and how it manages its relationships with other states, or on how great or major powers challenge or balance the hegemonic state. Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons seeks to explain why weaker states follow more powerful global or regional states or tacitly or openly resist their goals, and how they navigate their relationships with the hegemon. The authors explore the interests, motivations, objectives, and strategies of these 'followers'—including whether they can and do challenge the policies and strategies or the core position of the hegemon. Through the analysis of both historical and contemporary cases that feature global and regional hegemons in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South Asia, and that address a range of interest areas—from political, to economic and military—the book reveals the domestic and international factors that account for the motivations and actions of weaker states.

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