Small States and Big Powers

1. Portugal and Iceland: Foreign policy constructed by smallness?.- 2. Portugal, the European Union and Shelter Theory.- 3. A Reluctant European: Iceland and European integration.- 4. Portugal and NATO: enduring alliance or necessary shelter?.- 5. The Small State and the Superpower: Iceland's Relations with the United States.- 6. Iceland´s Relations with the Nordic States.- 7. Portugal's contemporary relations with Africa: a limited shelter?.- 8. Sino-Icelandic Relations.- 9. The many shades of shelter: Portugal and Iceland´s quest for political, economic and societal shelter.

Dr. Alice Cunha is Assistant Professor with Habilitation in International Relations at the NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), and Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), where she has worked on European Integration, an area in which she has published extensively. Her main research interests are related to enlargement studies, Europeanization, European funds and Portuguese foreign policy. She is a member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians. ORCID: 0000-0003-3206-8475.



Baldur Thorhallsson is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science and Programme and Research Director at the Centre for Small States at the University of Iceland. His research focus is primarily on small state studies, European integration and the Nordic states' foreign policies. He has published extensively in international journals, contributed to several academic books and written books on small states in Europe. In 2002, Baldur established a Centre for Small State Studies at the University of Iceland in association with colleagues around the globe and re-established the Icelandic Institute of International Affairs. Baldur has been a visiting fellow and taught on small states at several Universities, such as the Queen Mary University of London, the Military Academy of Lithuania, Williams College (MA, USA), Tallinn University of Technology and Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris 4. Baldur is currently leading two research projects on small states, i.e. small states and European integration (funded by the EU), and small states and crisis management (funded by the University of Iceland). He holds a PhD (1999) and MA (1994) in Political Science from the University of Essex in England and BA (1991) in Political Science from the University of Iceland.