01887nam a22003377a 4500 51524 51524 20190731111605.0 190731b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781137543882 :Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi :58461 :23/07/2019 327.101 KAS Kassab, Hanna Samir Weak States in International Relations Theory :the Cases of Armenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lebanon, and Cambodia / Hanna Samir Kassab New York, :Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 242 pages ; 23 cm 7370 International security and weak states -- Weak state vulnerability as an intervening variable -- Interests in terms of survival: the function of weak states -- Strength in weakness: weak state opportunistic behavior -- Weak states and great power grand strategy -- Weak state autonomy: Armenia and St. Kitts and Nevis -- Autonomy yet civil war: cases of Lebanon and Cambodia. This book seeks to explain why weak states exist within the international system. Using the cases of Armenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lebanon, and Cambodia, the author argues that, if a state is weak and vulnerable, then it can practice an unexpected degree of relative autonomy unfettered by great powers Political Science International relations Developing countries -- Foreign relations. States, Small -- Foreign relations. Armenia (Republic) -- Foreign relations. Lebanon. Armenien Armenia (Republic) Lebanon -- Foreign relations. Armenia (Republic) -- Foreign relations. Saint Kitts und Nevis Kassab, Hanna Samir, BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-07-31 Segment Book Distributors 7370.00 0 327.101 KAS 26487 2019-07-31 00:00:00 2019-07-31 BOOK