How do small island states maximize influence? Creole diplomacy and the smart state foreign policy of the Seychelles

Bueger, Christian; Wivel, Anders

doi:10.1080/19480881.2018.1471122

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“…Despite their heterogeneity, they have created a common diplomatic discourse and demonstrated leadership "in raising ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to help secure an ambitious long-term temperature goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5 °C, and advanced the complex debate on loss and damage" [11]. Except their common diplomatic strategy, talented negotiators and advisors, the group "flushed out" a few "vocal" political leaders, among them the prime minister of Barbados Freundel Stuart (2010-2018 and the prime minister of Tuvalu Enele Sopaga (2013-2019).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: New Security Challenges Of Sids -The ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Seychelles are comprised of over hundred islands while only three are inhabited -Mahé, Praslin and La Digue. Around 94.000 Seychellois live on these three islands, and the land area in total of Seychelles amounts to 455 km2 [25]. Furthermore, Seychelles are a micro-island-state highly dependable on ocean resources, and moreover to them climate change presents a high risk [25].…”

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“…Around 94.000 Seychellois live on these three islands, and the land area in total of Seychelles amounts to 455 km2 [25]. Furthermore, Seychelles are a micro-island-state highly dependable on ocean resources, and moreover to them climate change presents a high risk [25]. According to Seychelles' INDC [26] they want to cut down Greenhouse gas emissions till 2025 by 21,4 percent, or rather until 2030 by 29 percent "relative to their baseline emissions".…”

Section: Environmental Challenges Of Seychellesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate Challenges of Small Island Developing States: Cases of Tuvalu, Seychelles and Barbados

Stanišić¹,

Luša²,

Zgurić³

2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Indonesia Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies (IICIS 2021)

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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) present a group of small island countries that tend to share similar sustainable development challenges, which except from small, but growing populations, limited resources, and extensive dependence on international trade, include remoteness, sensitivity to natural disasters and vulnerable environments. For these islands climate change is an everyday reality and nowhere in the world are its implications more immediate than on SIDS. This particularly includes sea level rise, contaminated water, increased coral bleaching, rise of the global average temperatures, high levels of unemployment and consequently brain drain and other migrations. The paper focuses on three distinctive geographic regions by analyzing climate challenges of following SIDS: Barbados (the Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa) and Tuvalu (Asia and Pacific). Although aforementioned states share similar destiny as a result of smallness and remoteness, as well as most of the climate challenges, at the same time they display completely different policies in addressing them. While Tuvalu is SIDS most affected by climate changes which endanger its survival and is mostly focused on preserving its statehood, Barbados and Seychelles are more prone to concrete policy responses by promoting renewable energy and blue economy.

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Section: Environmental Challenges Of Seychellesmentioning

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Climate Challenges of Small Island Developing States: Cases of Tuvalu, Seychelles and Barbados

Stanišić¹,

Luša²,

Zgurić³

2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Indonesia Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies (IICIS 2021)

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“…Later, most of the small state studies that employ the smartness perspective make an implicit or explicit association between smartness and influence. Most of them focus on the steps and the preconditions of a strategy that enables a small state to maximize its influence (Arter, 2000;Bueger & Wivel, 2018;Grøn & Wivel, 2011;Kouskouvelis, 2015;Wivel, 2010). Initially, studies of the 'small but smart' state focused on the EU (Arter, 2000;Grøn & Wivel, 2011;Milta, 2016;Pastore, 2013;Wivel, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, Tarp and Hansen (2013) refer to the smart ways in which small states act within the United Nations. In addition, Bueger and Wivel (2018) show how Seychelles, a micro-state, has acted as a 'small but smart' state on the international stage and managed to extend its influence. Prasad (2009) correlates smartness with the ways that small states find to navigate an adverse international economic environment and increase their wealth.…”

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From the ‘Small but Smart State’ to the ‘Small and Entrepreneurial State’: Introducing a Framework for Effective Small State Strategies within the EU and Beyond

Pedi

Sarri

2019

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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As the current international system is leaning towards multipolarity, small states face the danger of their influence being diminished and their interests being ignored. Small states in Europe and within the European Union might find themselves in such a predicament. In order to overcome it, they are in need of effective strategies. Literature on the international relations of small states suggests that, despite their limitations, small states are able to pursue their goals and succeed in the international system. Small state studies employ the ‘small but smart state’ concept for a small state that can maximize its influence. Despite being widely used, the latter lacks analytical value and remains a cliché. The objective of this article is to pin down the ‘small but smart’ state strategy and based on that to provide a comprehensive framework for the analysis and the design of effective small state strategies. We suggest that the ‘small but smart’ state strategy shares many elements with the entrepreneurial action, as the latter is extended from its business origins to include a specific strategy. We draw on the field of entrepreneurship to explore the ways it can enhance our understanding of the international relations of small states and we introduce a framework for the ‘small and entrepreneurial state’ strategy. The notion of the ‘small and entrepreneurial state’ adds more depth and rigor into our small state analyses as well as reinvigorates a fragmented and repetitive literature. Last but not least, our ‘small and entrepreneurial state’ approach can be of use for both small state scholars and policy makers.

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Seychelles: Island Solutions and Capacity Building Successes

Marie¹,

Bueger

2020

Capacity Building for Maritime Security

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How do small island states maximize influence? Creole diplomacy and the smart state foreign policy of the Seychelles

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

Climate Challenges of Small Island Developing States: Cases of Tuvalu, Seychelles and Barbados

Climate Challenges of Small Island Developing States: Cases of Tuvalu, Seychelles and Barbados

From the ‘Small but Smart State’ to the ‘Small and Entrepreneurial State’: Introducing a Framework for Effective Small State Strategies within the EU and Beyond

Seychelles: Island Solutions and Capacity Building Successes

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