The Small Island States of Europe

Pace and Briguglio provide new insights into the subject of small states and European integration with a comparative assessment of four small island-states and European integration. This book looks at these island-states precisely because islands, as opposed to land-bound small states have a number of characteristics that distinguish them from the other small states, namely a maritime dimension and the insularity-connectivity problem which influences their culture, society, politics and economics. When small states engage in regional integration they do this to overcome some of the drawbacks of smallness and in the case of island-states to overcome the problems of 'insularity'. As such, the contributors do not discuss the vexed question 'what is a small state?' Instead they look at what small states seek from the process of European integration.