The Diplomacies of Small States at the Start of the Twenty-first Century: How Vulnerable? How Resilient?

Abstract

While there are now more small states than ever, the analytic and policy attention towards these states has not matched their proliferation. Hence the timeliness of this collection, which is designed as a catch-up exercise from both an academic and practical perspective and concentrates on the Caribbean. Reflective of a structurally imposed condition, small states continue to be disconnected from the most salient debates in International Relations (IR). Current theoretical shifts in IR to the regional-global architecture are almost universally perceived to be due to the emergence of the so-called BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) — or alternative acronyms such as the Next 11 (N11) — at the upper middle of the international hierarchy, and not to any relocation among small actors.

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