What is it about?
We show how leadership styles matter for small-state and middle-power agenda-setting in international affairs. Focusing on Canada, Sweden and Denmark in the United Nations, we show how these three states successfully influenced and promoted the Responsibility to Protect agenda.
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Why is it important?
Small states have little coercive power and must rely on persuading other states to cooperate. For this reason, understanding the tools of small state diplomacy is important, if we want to understand the international behaviour of small states and contribute to developing small state foreign policy.
Perspectives
Coming from a small state, Denmark, I am interested in understanding the many varieties of small state foreign policy and influence in international affairs and contributing to better tools for small state diplomacy.
Dr. Anders Wivel
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect, Foreign Policy Analysis, May 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/fpa/oraf006.
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