A Small State Maneuvering in the Changing World Order: Denmark’s “Creative Agency” Approach to Engagement with the BRICs
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A Small State Maneuvering in the Changing World Order : Denmark’s “Creative Agency” Approach to Engagement with the BRICs. / Sørensen, Camilla T. N.
Emerging Powers, Emerging Markets, Emerging Societies : Global Responses. ed. / Steen Fryba; Xing Li. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. p. 211-234 (International Political Economy Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - A Small State Maneuvering in the Changing World Order
T2 - Denmark’s “Creative Agency” Approach to Engagement with the BRICs
AU - Sørensen, Camilla T. N.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - How are small states managing the shift under way in the global economic and political order from the United States and Europe towards other regions, especially Asia? In the International Relations literature, there is a tendency to focus on the great powers – they set the scene, and the small states have to adjust, and therefore their different national political characteristics, values and preferences are not seen as having a strong influence. Being small is seen as an inherent disadvantage in international politics, but are there also advantages? Analyzing how Danish foreign policy, especially the Danish approach to the BRICs, has developed in recent years, I show how Denmark – a small state – is trying to maneuver in the changing world order through a “creative agency” approach characterized by pragmatic low-profile activism. I develop a neoclassical realist framework and use this in order to analyse the Danish foreign policy reactions to the changing world order and show how the emergence of new powers is gradually affecting Denmark’s foreign policy priorities and its “policy profile.
AB - How are small states managing the shift under way in the global economic and political order from the United States and Europe towards other regions, especially Asia? In the International Relations literature, there is a tendency to focus on the great powers – they set the scene, and the small states have to adjust, and therefore their different national political characteristics, values and preferences are not seen as having a strong influence. Being small is seen as an inherent disadvantage in international politics, but are there also advantages? Analyzing how Danish foreign policy, especially the Danish approach to the BRICs, has developed in recent years, I show how Denmark – a small state – is trying to maneuver in the changing world order through a “creative agency” approach characterized by pragmatic low-profile activism. I develop a neoclassical realist framework and use this in order to analyse the Danish foreign policy reactions to the changing world order and show how the emergence of new powers is gradually affecting Denmark’s foreign policy priorities and its “policy profile.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - BRIC
KW - China
KW - Danish foreign policy
KW - Neoclassical realism
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137561770#otherversion=9781137561787
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-137-56178-7
DO - 10.1007/978-1-137-56178-7
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781137561770
T3 - International Political Economy Series
SP - 211
EP - 234
BT - Emerging Powers, Emerging Markets, Emerging Societies
A2 - Fryba, Steen
A2 - Li, Xing
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke, UK
ER -
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