1st Edition
Small States in EU Policy-Making Strategies, Challenges, Opportunities
1. Introduction: The Challenges and Opportunities of EU Membership for Small States, Anna-Lena Högenauer and Matúš Mišík. Section I: Small states in the EU's institutions and policy processes. 2. Small Member States in the European Commission of the 21st Century, Lukáš Hamřík; 3. Small States in the European Parliament: Does Size Make a Difference? Anna-Lena Högenauer; 4. Bringing the European Parliament: Does Size Make a Difference? Ieva Grumbinaitė; 5. Small states coalition building in EU policy-making: the cases of the Nordic and Baltic countries, Tobias Etzold; 6. Small-State Veto Power in the European Union? National Interests and Coalition-Building Capacity of the Member States in Central and Eastern Europe, Boyka Stefanova. Section II: Small states in foreign, security and trade policy. 7. The Economic Diplomacy of Luxembourg within the European Union framework: between agility and stability, Helen Kavvadia;. 8. Small states, subregional minilateralism, and European foreign policy, Marion Foster and Michael Mosser; 9. Small State Influence in EU Security Policy-making: PESCO, Frontex, and the Integration Dilemma, Béranger Dominici, Olivier Lewis and Sebastian Steingass; 10. Challenges and Opportunities: Estonia's Role in Shaping EU Cybersecurity Policy, Xinchuchu Gao; 11. Conclusion: Size Is Not Everything, Anna-Lena Högenauer and Matúš Mišík
Biography
Anna-Lena Högenauer is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on questions of multilevel governance, EU politics and parliamentary democracy. She is Associate Editor of PRX and a member of the editorial boards of Politics and Governance and of Small States & Territories.
Matúš Mišík is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Comenius University Bratislava. His research interests include small states and energy security in the EU. He is the author of External Energy Security in the European Union (Routledge, 2019), co-author of Energy Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe (2024) and has published articles in journals including Nature Energy, Energy, Energy Policy and Geopolitics.
