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Upcoming Summer Seminar

Beyond Liberalism and Socialism: Searching for a Decent Society, 23 - 28 August 2010, Vama Veche, Romania
Organized by the, Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, Black Sea University Foundation and European Cultural Centre, Bucharest.
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Publication (JUST OUT): Small States in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

edited by Robert Steinmetz, Press Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg and former Intern and Researcher at the LIEIS, and Anders Wivel, Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

published by Ashgate: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9646&edition_id=12262

The contributors are: Clive Archer, Manchester Metropolitan University; Mats Braun Institute of International Relations, Prague; David Criekemans and Manuel Durant, University of Antwerp; Jean-Marie Frentz, Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies; Mario Hirsch, Institut Pierre Werner, Luxembourg, Rainer Kattel, Tiina Randma-Liiv and Tarmo Kalvet, Tallinn University of Technology; Costas Melakopides, University of Cyprus; Plamen Pantev, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky; Jean-Marc Rickli, Geneva University Strategic Studies Group; Jan Rood, the Clingendael Institute, The Hague; Toms Rostoks, University of Latvia, Riga; Robert Steinmetz, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Baldur Thorhallsson, University of Iceland; Anders Wivel,  University of Copenhagen.

This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing small states in Europe. Drawing on the relational understanding of small states, it emphasizes the implications of institutional change at the European level for the smaller states and explains how the foreign and European policies of small states in the region are affected by the European Union. The book includes case studies on the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Iceland, Austria and Switzerland.