Small states, great power? Gaining influence through intrinsic, derivative, and collective power

T Long - International Studies Review, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, scholars have devoted increased attention to the agency of small states in
International Relations. However, the conventional wisdom remains that while not …

It's not the size, it's the relationship: from 'small states' to asymmetry

T Long - International politics, 2017 - Springer
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 …

Maximizing influence in the European Union after the Lisbon Treaty: From small state policy to smart state strategy

CH Grøn, A Wivel - Journal of European Integration, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
How do small states maximize their influence in the European Union? This article argues
that the traditional small state approach to European integration is being undermined by …

Acting small in a large state's world: Russia and the Baltic states

JW Lamoreaux - European Security, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The interest in small states ebbs and flows as important international affairs include small
states. Russia's actions and policies vis-à-vis Ukraine, and the resultant intensified …

Ambitions yet unrealized: Romania's status and perceptions from the immediate eastern neighbourhood

TL Moga, N Bureiko - Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
As Romania has recurrently indicated in recent years that the main external objective is to
consolidate the country's profile in the region and, in particular, in its immediate eastern …

From the 'small but smart state'to the 'small and entrepreneurial state': Introducing a framework for effective small state strategies within the EU and beyond

R Pedi, K Sarri - TalTech Journal of European Studies, 2019 - sciendo.com
Baltic Journal of European Studies Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol.
9, No. 1 (26) action, as the latter is extended from its business origins to include a specific …

Efficiency ranking of economic growth toward sustainable growth with grey system theory: the case of small countries in advanced and emerging economies

M Nowak, M Kokocińska - International Journal of Management and …, 2023 - sciendo.com
The article refers to the new Synthetic Efficiency Indicator for Economic Growth (SEI-EG)
proposed in an earlier publication. Research from 2016–2018 in 11 EU countries revealed …

Can small states be more than price takers in global governance?

YK Heng, SMA Aljunied - Global Governance, 2015 - JSTOR
Existing debates suggest that small states can exert more influence than their size alone
implies. This article contributes to such extant literature by addressing more specific …

Measuring the efficiency of economic growth towards sustainable growth with grey system theory

M Kokocińska, M Nowak, P Łopatka - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the paper, a new indicator exemplifying the conversion efficiency of expenditures towards
economic growth into results pertaining to sustainable development, dubbed the “Synthetic …

Small EU member states and the European security and defence integration

R Pedi - European Union Security and Defence: Policies …, 2021 - Springer
One of the most researched topics regarding small states in the EU concerns small member
states and the Union's security and defence policy. This should not come as a surprise as in …