Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : small states in European security / Tomáš Weiss and Geoffrey Edwards -- Towards a framework for analysis : facing the pressures of internationalisation and securitisation / Tomáš Weiss, Lucie Kadlecová and Ondřej Ditrych -- Strategic culture and small states : from norm breakers to norm takers to norm shapers / Jan Niklas Rolf -- Small and impressionable? : strategic cultures of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in evolving international contexts / Jan Beneš and Tomáš Karásek -- Domestic contestations in Lithuania's foreign and security policy : who calls the shots? / Gerda Jakštaitė-Confortola and Ausra Park -- The Netherlands' approach to EU CSDP and UN peacekeeping operations : assessing a "big small power" in European and global security / Joachim A. Koops and Sophie L. Vériter -- Only just making up the numbers? : understanding European small state participation in multilateral maritime security operations / Brendan Flynn -- From rebellious and reluctant allies to reliant partners : Denmark and Iceland in the transatlantic relationship / Anders Wivel, Baldur Thorhallsson and Sverrir Steinsson -- Small country and European security : the case of Bulgarian-Russia relations since 2014 / Jean F. Crombois -- "Estonisation" and its limits : threat perceptions and integration in the EU and NATO / Laure Delcour and Sandra Fernandes -- Latvia's and Luxembourg's EU Council presidencies in the formulation of the refugee relocation scheme : between national and international policymaking / Maria Chiara Vinciguerra -- Europeanisation of non-military dimensions of security : the case of Norway / Claudia Morsut.

This book studies how domestic contestation influences the security policy of small states within the European Union and NATO. A multinational group of expert contributors consider how domestic contestation is translated into small states' foreign policies, how membership of international organisations alters attitudes to security policy in small states, and how patterns of small states' behaviour across domestic traditions, security cultures, and geographical location can be identified. Anchored in new institutionalism, the book explores the influence of international organisations on security policies and the tensions created by connecting four strands of literature, on Europeanisation, on the impact of and on institutions, on the way foreign and security policy is made, and the security/strategic culture of small states. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, security studies, EU studies, area studies, and politics