Vulnerability without capabilities? Small state strategy and the international counter-piracy agenda
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Vulnerability without capabilities? Small state strategy and the international counter-piracy agenda. / Smed, Ulrik Trolle; Wivel, Anders.
I: European Security, Bind 26, Nr. 1, 02.01.2017, s. 79-98.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Vulnerability without capabilities?
T2 - Small state strategy and the international counter-piracy agenda
AU - Smed, Ulrik Trolle
AU - Wivel, Anders
PY - 2017/1/2
Y1 - 2017/1/2
N2 - Today, small European states regularly need to go out of area and out of tried and tested institutional settings to defend their security interests. How do small European states meet this challenge most effectively? This analysis suggests that small states can influence multilateral decisions on international security by combining norm entrepreneurship with lobbying and taking on the role as an ‘honest broker’. However, economic capacity, an effective state administration and interests compatible with the agendas of the great powers are key to success. Based on a comprehensive empirical material including 19 elite interviews as well as official documents and other written material, we process trace how one small European state, Denmark, influenced the development of international counterpiracy cooperation and the development of an international counterpiracy strategy for the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa and discuss which lessons the Danish case may hold for other small states.
AB - Today, small European states regularly need to go out of area and out of tried and tested institutional settings to defend their security interests. How do small European states meet this challenge most effectively? This analysis suggests that small states can influence multilateral decisions on international security by combining norm entrepreneurship with lobbying and taking on the role as an ‘honest broker’. However, economic capacity, an effective state administration and interests compatible with the agendas of the great powers are key to success. Based on a comprehensive empirical material including 19 elite interviews as well as official documents and other written material, we process trace how one small European state, Denmark, influenced the development of international counterpiracy cooperation and the development of an international counterpiracy strategy for the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa and discuss which lessons the Danish case may hold for other small states.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Foreign Policy
KW - Small states
KW - Norm entrepreneuership
KW - Small state strategy
KW - counter-piracy
KW - influence seeking
KW - Maritime security
KW - Denmark
KW - Maritime security
KW - Norm entrepreneuership
KW - Small state strategy
KW - Danish foreign policy
KW - counterpiracy
KW - influence seeking
KW - Piracy
U2 - 10.1080/09662839.2016.1265941
DO - 10.1080/09662839.2016.1265941
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 79
EP - 98
JO - European Security
JF - European Security
SN - 0966-2839
IS - 1
ER -
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