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Island Statesmen

Island Statesmen

Selma Aarvik

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Año de edición:
2026
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Relaciones internacionales
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9789376556823
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Most readers see global diplomacy through the speeches of great powers. Yet some of the most consequential deals on climate, shipping and finance have been shaped by envoys from countries with barely a million citizens. This book lifts the curtain on how the diplomats, lawyers and ministers of small states quietly steer decisions that affect cargo routes and coastlines worldwide.Through vivid portraits of negotiators, it shows how small states diplomacy and microstate foreign policy really work in windowless rooms and late night drafting sessions. Readers follow climate diplomacy leaders turning exposed coastlines into moral leverage, and maritime law and islands specialists converting nautical charts into jurisdiction and revenue. Chapters on united nations small states reveal how agendas, caucuses and corridors matter as much as grand speeches.The book also examines debt relief negotiations, tourism soft power strategies and diaspora political influence as tools for survival and influence. It highlights women foreign ministers from microstates whose careers redraw expectations about who speaks for a country. Throughout, it offers a clear mental model of global governance small nations can actually use, avoiding jargon while respecting complexity.Readers who work in international organisations, government, advocacy or journalism will find practical ways to recognise leverage where it is usually overlooked. Those simply curious about how the world is actually run will come away with a sharper eye for whose voices are missing from headlines but present in negotiating rooms. The result is a grounded, quietly radical account of how the smallest states help decide the fate of oceans, trade and the climate itself.

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