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dc.contributor.authorSharman, JC
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T01:00:40Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T01:00:40Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0032-3217
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0032321716665392
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/353417
dc.description.abstractMicro-states illustrate deep changes in the international system obscured by scholars’ traditional focus on great powers. Logically, the nature and systemic effects of international anarchy should be most apparent in relation to the smallest and weakest states, and least apparent in relation to great powers. Focusing on micro-states suggests a permissive contemporary international system facilitating the proliferation and survival of states independent of their military and functional capacities. Micro-states’ lack of great power allies illustrates the irrelevance of military threats under anarchy, while the presence of an international economic safety net attenuates problems of economic viability. The lack of association between smallness and delegating sovereignty questions functional explanations of hierarchy. Instead, varying micro-states strategies of à la carte hierarchy and selling sovereign prerogatives demonstrate that the current international system presents even its smallest and weakest members with choices rather than imperatives.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom559
dc.relation.ispartofpageto575
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPolitical Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume65
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440899
dc.titleSovereignty at the Extremes: Micro-States in World Politics
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.rights.copyrightJC Sharman, Sovereignty at the Extremes: Micro-States in World Politics, Political Studies, Vol. 65(3) 559–575, 2017. Copyright 2017 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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