scholarly journals Topical issues of the security strategy of small states

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Andrei Andreevich Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Small States ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

The goal of this article lies in examination of the topical issues of modern security strategy implemented by small states. For achieving the set goal, the author solves the following tasks: 1) define a “small country” as a concept of modern political science; 2) outline the current needs and problems of small states; 3) analyze the existing and possible security strategies of small states. Analysis is conducted on the security strategies used by small states, as well as the policy of small states in the current complicated international situation that threatens the security of all mankind. The Modern small states face a range of problems related to security, which determine their foreign policy behavior and security strategies. Small states are much more vulnerable than major powers, and thus are limited in their domestic and foreign policy. In order to enhance their security and sustainability, as well as have greater influence and meet their own economic and political needs, the small states either seek partners and allies to fulfill their goals or remain neutral. The security strategies of small states are aimed at improving their chances to stay the course and conduct their independent policy in the modern conditions of civilizational clash and escalating confrontation. Depending on their geography, historical fate, and existing limitations from the perspective of economic, political, and territorial capabilities, the small states choose different behavioral models in their foreign policy.

scholarly journals Topical issues of the security strategy of small states

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Andrei Andreevich Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Small States ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

The goal of this article lies in examination of the topical issues of modern security strategy implemented by small states. For achieving the set goal, the author solves the following tasks: 1) define a “small country” as a concept of modern political science; 2) outline the current needs and problems of small states; 3) analyze the existing and possible security strategies of small states. Analysis is conducted on the security strategies used by small states, as well as the policy of small states in the current complicated international situation that threatens the security of all mankind. The Modern small states face a range of problems related to security, which determine their foreign policy behavior and security strategies. Small states are much more vulnerable than major powers, and thus are limited in their domestic and foreign policy. In order to enhance their security and sustainability, as well as have greater influence and meet their own economic and political needs, the small states either seek partners and allies to fulfill their goals or remain neutral. The security strategies of small states are aimed at improving their chances to stay the course and conduct their independent policy in the modern conditions of civilizational clash and escalating confrontation. Depending on their geography, historical fate, and existing limitations from the perspective of economic, political, and territorial capabilities, the small states choose different behavioral models in their foreign policy.

Size and Foreign Policy Behavior: A Test of Two Models

1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice A. East
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Small States ◽  
Nation States ◽  
International Behavior ◽  
Small Powers ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

The categorization of states according to size has long been a part of world politics. Rothstein notes, for example, that the formalization of the categories of great and small powers occurred as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Chaumont in 1817. Recently, the concept of size has received an increasing amount of attention as a factor affecting foreign policy. One manifestation of this is the renewed interest in die foreign policy behavior of small states. In his pre-theory of foreign policy, Rosenau includes size as one of three “genotypic” variables assumed to exert a major influence on foreign policy. In addition, empirical studies have shown size to be an important factor underlying variations in the international behavior of nation-states.

Hedging and grand strategy in Southeast Asian foreign policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Martin Jones ◽  
Nicole Jenne
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Small States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Classical Realism ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

Abstract This article examines recent interest in hedging as a feature of international politics in the Asia Pacific. Focusing on the small states of Southeast Asia, we argue that dominant understandings of hedging are misguided for two reasons. Despite significant advances in the literature, hedging has remained a vague concept rendering it a residual category of foreign policy behavior. Moreover, current accounts of hedging tend to overstate the strategic intentions of ostensible hedgers. This article proposes that a better understanding of Southeast Asia’s foreign policy behavior needs to dissociate hedging from neorealist concepts of international politics. Instead, we locate the concept in the context of classical realism and the diplomatic practice of second-tier states. Exploring Southeast Asia’s engagement with more powerful actors from this perspective reveals the strategic limitations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the dilemma that Southeast Asian states face from a rising China challenging the status quo in the western Pacific.

scholarly journals Intergovernmental Organizations and Foreign Policy Behavior: Some Empirical Findings

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 494-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. McCormick ◽  
Young W. Kihl
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

In this study, we evaluate whether the increase in the number of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) has resulted in their increased use for foreign policy behavior by the nations of the world. This question is examined in three related ways: (1) the aggregate use of IGOs for foreign policy behavior; (2) the relationship between IGO membership and IGO use; and (3) the kinds of states that use IGOs. Our data base consists of the 35 nations in the CREON (Comparative Research on the Events of Nations) data set for the years 1959–1968.The main findings are that IGOs were employed over 60 percent of the time with little fluctuation on a year-by-year basis, that global and “high politics” IGOs were used more often than regional and “low politics” IGOs, that institutional membership and IGO use were generally inversely related, and that the attributes of the states had limited utility in accounting for the use of intergovernmental organizations. Some of the theoretical implications of these findings are then explored.

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