The Diplomacies of Small States

1. The Diplomacies of Small States at the Start of the Twenty-first Century: How Vulnerable? How Resilient?
Andrew F. Cooper, Timothy M. Shaw

Part 1. Challenges/Realities of Practising Small State Diplomacy

2. Thucydides or Kissinger? A Critical Review of Smaller State Diplomacy
Godfrey Baldacchino

3. Small but Smart: Small States in the Global System
Naren Prasad

4. Singapore and the Soft Power Experience
Alan Chong

5. Dependency Governance and Future Political Development in the Non-Independent Caribbean
Carlyle G. Corbin

6. The Diplomacy of Caribbean Community States: Searching for Resilience
Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner

Part 2. Case Studies: Small States’ Diplomacy vis-à-vis Regional Organisation

7. Can Small States Choose Their Own Size? The Case of a Nordic State — Iceland
Baldur Thorhallsson

8. PetroCaribe and CARICOM: Venezuela’s Resource Diplomacy and its Impact on Small State Regional Cooperation
Anthony T. Bryan

9. The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement: Impediment or Development Opportunity for CARICOM SIDS?
Debbie A. Mohammed

10. From Afterthought to Centre Stage: The Caribbean and the Summit of the Americas Process
Daniel P. Erikson

Part 3. Case Studies: Small States’ Diplomacy vis-à-vis International Organisations

11. Bringing an Elephant into the Room: Small African State Diplomacy in the WTO
Donna Lee

12. Confronting Vulnerability through Resilient Diplomacy: Antigua and the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute with the United States
Andrew F. Cooper

13. The Path to ‘International Finance’: Bringing (Caribbean) Offshore Financial Centres In; Attenuating the Western Grand Narrative
Don D. Marshall

14. Cultural Industries and Cultural Policy in the Context of Globalisation: An Agenda for SIDS
Keith Nurse

15. The Caribbean Confronts the OECD: Tax Competition and Diplomacy
William Vlcek

16. Afterword: Vulnerability as a Condition, Resilience as a Strategy
Anthony Payne

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Diplomacy, Political Science, Social Sciences, general