What are the opportunities and limitations of small state grand strategy? This lecture identifies the characteristics of small state grand strategy and discusses the similarities and differences between the grand strategies of small states and great powers. The lecture unpacks the nature of traditional defensive small state grand strategies hiding and shelter-seeking as well as more recent offensive, influence-seeking small state grand strategies under the heading of smart state strategy and discusses the conditions for small state success and influence in international relations.
Anders Wivel, PhD, is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on foreign policy, small states in international relations, and power politics. His most recent book is Polarity in International Relations: Past, Present, Future (Palgrave, 2022, co-edited with Nina Græger, Bertel Heurlin and Ole Wæver).
Recorded on November 27th, 2023, University of Innsbruck.
Links:
- Website of Anders Wivel: https://anderswivel.com/
To cite:
Wivel, Anders (2023): Small States and Grand Strategy, Podcast PolitikWissen, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck, https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/politikwissenschaft/kommunikation/podcast/wivel-strategy/.
Music by Lost Harmonies.
This podcast gives the views of the author(s), and not the position of the Department of Political Science.
This work by the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).