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Title: | Book review : The foreign policy of smaller Gulf states : size, power, and regime stability in the Middle East |
Authors: | Parker, Tyler B. |
Keywords: | Books -- Reviews National security -- Persian Gulf States -- History -- 20th century National security -- Persian Gulf States -- History -- 21st century Persian Gulf States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century States, Small -- Foreign relations |
Issue Date: | 2022-05 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Islands and Small States Institute |
Citation: | Parker, T. B. (2022). Book review : The foreign policy of smaller Gulf states : size, power, and regime stability in the Middle East. Small States & Territories, 5(1), 233-234. |
Abstract: | Recent years have seen a surge of scholarship on the smaller Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The five have wielded their ‘smallness’ in distinct, sometimes competing, ways. Some aim to transcend their smallness; others have embraced it. How can this variation inform small state scholarship? Máté Szalai’s The foreign policy of smaller Gulf states is a timely and thorough book that contributes to the theorisation and evaluation of state smallness. Szalai uses a framework he terms the “complex model of size” (CMS) (p. 4) to assess the perceptual, absolute, relative, and normative forms of smallness. [excerpt] |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/94145 |
Appears in Collections: | SST Vol. 5, No. 1, May 2022 SST Vol. 5, No. 1, May 2022 |
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