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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents - Summary -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of cases -- Table of treaties -- Table of legislation -- Abbreviations -- Part I Sources -- 1 Function -- A The function of law in foreign relations -- 1 Contesting the law's exclusion -- 2 The allocative function of foreign relations law -- 3 The foreign relations law of the Anglo-Commonwealth states -- 4 The exclusionary doctrines and their reappraisal -- 5 Foreign relations law at the interface of international and municipal law -- B The scope and structure of this study -- 1 Sources -- 2 The foreign relations power -- 3 Foreign relations and the individual -- 4 The foreign state -- 2 Development -- A Introduction -- B The development of common law thought on foreign relations -- 1 Locke - the federative function of the executive -- 2 Blackstone and Mansfield - the prerogative and international law -- 3 Dicey - a Victorian exclusionary acquis -- 4 Mann - private rights and the containment of public law -- C A Commonwealth foreign relations law -- 1 From imperial to autonomous foreign relations power -- 2 The Australian Constitution - distribution of foreign relations powers -- 3 The interaction of international law and municipal law -- A Introduction -- 1 Transmission or reception? -- 2 Constitutional functions -- 3 Interpretation and application distinguished -- 4 The application of general international law as a question of allocation -- B The allocative function of public international law in foreign relations -- 1 Inter-state relations referred exclusively to the plane of international law -- 2 The allocation of jurisdiction between states by public international law -- 3 Statehood -- 4 The allocation of state responsibility.

What legal principles govern the external exercise of the public power of states within common law legal systems? Foreign Relations Law tackles three fundamental issues: the distribution of the foreign relations power between the organs of government; the impact of the foreign relations power on individual rights; and the treatment of the foreign state within the municipal legal system. Focusing on the four Anglo-Commonwealth states (the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand), McLachlan examines the interaction between public international law and national law and demonstrates that the prime function of foreign relations law is not to exclude foreign affairs from legal regulation, but to allocate jurisdiction and determine applicable law in cases involving the external exercise of the public power of states: between the organs of the state; amongst the national legal systems of different states; and between the national and the international legal systems

One of the important trends in the development of international relations in the second half of the 20th — early 21st centuries is the growing importance of small states in international relations. From passive "pawns" in the big political games of the great powers, they are turning into active players capable of pursuing their own national interests in the international arena. During the Cold War period, European neutral states acquired an unique experience of fruitful cooperation in international organizations, peaceful mediation and peacemaking. Multilateral diplomacy, renunciation of the use of force, striving for a peaceful political resolution of conflicts predetermine, to a certain extent, interest in studying the experience of small countries. The decline in the ability of the leading great powers to resolve conflicts effectively on the periphery of the international system, on the other hand, the capability of small countries to generate new ideas and norms in international relations create preconditions for a further increase in the role of small countries in international relations. It is necessary to study not only the great powers, but also the small countries that make up the vast majority of states, if we want to understand the nature of international relations in general, the formation and behavior of modern coalitions and alliances in particular. This article aims to identify the main stages of the study of small states in international relations, to analyze the main approaches to the definition of the concept of "small state", to consider the factors of formation of the foreign policy of small states through the prism of some theories of international relations, to find out the features of the foreign policy behavior of small countries in international relations.

Recent years have seen a surge of scholarship on the smaller Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The five have wielded their 'smallness' in distinct, sometimes competing, ways. Some aim to transcend their smallness; others have embraced it. How can this variation inform small state scholarship? Máté Szalai's The foreign policy of smaller Gulf states is a timely and thorough book that contributes to the theorisation and evaluation of state smallness. Szalai uses a framework he terms the "complex model of size" (CMS) (p. 4) to assess the perceptual, absolute, relative, and normative forms of smallness. [excerpt] ; N/A

The majority of countries in the world are small states. Their role grew up rapidly in the period after the Second World War and especially after the end of the Cold War. In this period new themes appeared in the international relations and small states profiled on them as so-called middle powers. Development aid and cooperation or support for human security were two such a themes. The Czech Republic too could in the near future aspire to become a medium-sized power. Czech foreign policy was formed in the dynamic period after the end of the bipolar conflict of the Great Powers and the disintegration of the Czechoslovak Federation. Nevertheless, since the very beginning the Czech Republic has been able to define its clear priorities, often with reference to the historical development of Czechoslovak statehood. The euphoric period when the Czech Republic was established could be one of the reasons why the first official concept of Czech foreign policy was presented as late as 1998. These policies, and later policies since 2002, represent a combination of small state and medium-sized power strategies. The article analyses which themes could be the vehicle for transforming Czech foreign policy from that of a small state towards the policy of a middle power.

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