TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kassab, Hanna Samir
AU  - Kassab, Hanna Samir, 
TI  -  Weak States in International Relations Theory: :the Cases of Armenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lebanon, and Cambodia
SN  - 9781137543882
U1  - 327.101 KAS 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - :Palgrave Macmillan, 
KW  - Political Science
KW  -  International relations
KW  - Developing countries -- Foreign relations
KW  - States, Small -- Foreign relations
KW  - Armenia (Republic) -- Foreign relations
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Armenien
KW  - Armenia (Republic)
KW  - Lebanon -- Foreign relations
KW  - Saint Kitts und Nevis
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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