Neoclassical realism and small states: systemic constraints and domestic filters in Georgia’s foreign policy

During the cold war, the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia was a middle-sized power pursuing a non-aligned foreign policy and a defence strategy based on massive armed forces, obligatory conscription, and a doctrine of ‘Total National Defence’. The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s resulted in the creation of several small states. Ever since, their defence policies and armed forces have been undergoing a thorough transformation. This chapter provides an analysis of the defence transformation of the two biggest post-Yugoslav states—Serbia and Croatia—since the end of the cold war. During the 1990s, defence transformation in both states was shaped by the undemocratic nature of their regimes and war. Ever since they started democratic transition in 2000, and in spite of their diverging foreign policies, both states have pivoted towards building modern, professional, interoperable, and democratically controlled armed forces capable of tackling both traditional and emerging threats.

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Being a Small State: Discussion on the Role of Size

Baltic Journal of Political Science ◽

10.15388/bjps.2018.7-8.5 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 73-91

Author(s):

Justinas Lingevičius

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

New Zealand ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Future Research ◽

Small States ◽

Small State

This paper discusses theoretical debates regarding small states and their foreign policy and also argues that research should include more analysis of small states’ identities and the dominant meanings related to being a small state. Using poststructuralistic theoretical perspective and discourse analysis, two empirical cases – Lithuania and New Zealand – are analysed with attention paid to the meanings of smallness and the ways these meanings are constructed. Empirical analysis follows with suggestions for how future research of small states could be improved.

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Transição à democracia, política externa e dependência: esboço de uma análise comparada entre Argentina e Brasil a partir da obra Dependência e Desenvolvimento na América Latina/Transition to democracy, foreign policy and dependency

Brazilian Journal of International Relations ◽

10.36311/2237-7743.2016.v5n3.10.p670 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 670-688

Author(s):

Gabriel Campos Fernandino

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Transition To Democracy ◽

Political Transition ◽

Neoclassical Realism ◽

America Latina

Neste artigo são apresentadas características gerais do processo redemocratização na Argentina e no Brasil e da política externa nesse contexto, esboçando a possibilidade de análise dos históricos argentino e brasileiro a partir da obra Dependência e Desenvolvimento na América Latina: Ensaio de Interpretação Sociológica (1977). Busca-se destacar nuances da evolução da política externa de cada Estado no momento da transição política, através do prisma teórico da escola de política externa do Realismo Neoclássico. Ao final, são ainda sugeridas pontuais interpretações desses desenrolares a partir da Teoria da Dependência.Palavras-chave: Argentina; Brasil; Dependência; Política Externa; Transição. Abstract: This article presents general features of the democratization process in Argentina and Brazil as well as foreign policy features in this context, outlining the possibility of analysis of Argentina and Brazil from the perspective of the work Dependência e Desenvolvimento na América Latina: Ensaio de Interpretação Sociológica (1977). The aim is to highlight nuances of the evolution of foreign policy of each state at the time of political transition through the theoretical prism of the school of foreign policy of Neoclassical Realism. In the end, the work still suggests specific interpretations of these cases from the Teoria da Dependência.Keywords: Argentina; Brazil; Dependence; Foreign Policy; Transition

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Small States and the Struggle for Power in the Arctic Region: A Case Study of Denmark

Politologija ◽

10.15388/polit.2019.94.3 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 94 (2) ◽

pp. 81-108

Author(s):

Gabija Lukšaitė

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Arctic Region ◽

The Arctic ◽

Small States ◽

Small State ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

International Environment ◽

Foreign Policy Strategies ◽

The Arctic Region

This paper examines the specifics of foreign policy strategies used by Denmark as a small state in the Arctic region. Based upon a number of theoretical approaches in terms of analyzing small state foreign policy, this study is primarily focused on how small states manage to pursue their goals in an international environment typically dominated by large powers.

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