Non-Western small states:activists or survivors?

In this introduction to the collection, we explain its focus on non-Western small states. While the terms ‘non-Western’ and ‘small states’ are problematic – we discuss these problems here – the smallness and non-Westerness of the states studied by the contributing authors set them apart in a way that has attracted little academic attention so far. They allow them to operate with fewer normative and practical constraints than their bigger, Western counterparts; offer them a wide range of (often historically forged) political ties; and force them to draw on a diversity of approaches and strategic thinking, and a creativity, that they are too rarely credited for. Non-Western small states, rather than being mere survivors constrained to the world’s periphery, are better understood as activist states intent on existing. The collection offers a range of analytical keys to make sense of these states and their role in the international scene

"Trading Partners or Trading Sovereignty? Finland, Norway and the EU"

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Review of Into the ice: the history of Norway and the polar regions, by Einar-Arne Drivenes & Harald Dag Jølle

How timely for a deep and engaging analysis of Norway’s polar history to be available in English, as climate change, global warming and competition for scarce resources are pressing issues among academics, in global society and in the far north