This study was undertaken to provide information and analyses of developments in the public finances of the smaller industrial countries over the decade 1972-82. It also reflects an evolving pattern in the fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund of following…
This study was undertaken to provide information and analyses of developments in the public finances of the smaller industrial countries over the decade 1972-82. It also reflects an evolving pattern in the fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund of following…
Smaller states, trade, and conflicts from the 18th to the 20th centuries -- Introduction / Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedberg, Cristina Moreira, and Silvia Marzagalli -- The United States and the Mediterranean, 1783-1815 / Silvia Marzagalli (Université Nice) -- Baltic rel…
This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in …
This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in …
"This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the Atla…
"This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the Atla…
"The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict which dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond t…
Preface / Karel Davids -- Reforming senates in the post-revolutionary North-Atlantic world : an introduction / Nikolaj Bijleveld and WybrenVerstegen -- Senates and bicameralism in revolutionary Europe (c.1795-1800) / Joris Oddens -- The rise and fall of the quasi-bicameral syste…
"Small States, Smart Solutions : Improving Connectivity and Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Services examines how some small states use international trade and telecommunications technology to outsource services such as justice, banking supervision, public utilities regul…