Samuël Kruizinga is Senior Lecturer in Military and Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He recently edited, along with Ruud van Dijk, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Rimko van der Maar, Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A Small Country on the Global Scene (2018).

Finally, a full study of how small states experience and narrate their smallness. Welcome to Small State Studies, dear historians!

• Introduction, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)1. Belittling Spain: Hispanophobia and the Mirror Image of Greatness, Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)2. Dealing with Smallness in Hasbsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia in the late-19th and early-20th century, Adrian Brisku (Charles University, Czech Republic and University of Vienna, Austria)3. Smallness and the East-West Binary in Nationalism Studies: Belgium and Romania in the Long 19th Century, Raul Carstocea (University of Flensburg, Germany) & Maarten Van Ginderachter (University of Antwerp, Belgium)4. 'Poor Little Belgium': Food Aid and the Image of Belgian Victimhood in the United States, Marjet Brolsma & Samuël Kruizinga (both University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)5. Science, Health and American Money: Small-State Strategies in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Denmark, Elisabeth Van Meer (College of Charleston, USA), Casper Andersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) & Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)6. Neutral news: Forging a Small States’ Transnational Media Network, 1920 - 1940, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)7. ‘Whoever Says That Serbia Is Small, Is Lying!’: Serbia, Ontological (In)Security and the Unbearable Smallness of Being, Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)8. Iceland's Smallness: Acceptance or Denial?, Baldur Þórhallsson & Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (both University of Iceland, Iceland)10. Great Britain and Little Ireland: Reimagining British and Irish relations in BIPA, Brexit and Beyond, Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus University, Denmark)11. From David to Goliath? The Question of Size in Israel's Identity Politics, Alexei Tsinovoi (Copenhagen University, Denmark)12. Conclusions and Outlook, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) & Karen Gram-Skjoldager (Aarhus University, Denmark)BibliographyGlossaryIndex

Samuël Kruizinga is Senior Lecturer in Military and Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He recently edited, along with Ruud van Dijk, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Rimko van der Maar, Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A Small Country on the Global Scene (2018).

Finally, a full study of how small states experience and narrate their smallness. Welcome to Small State Studies, dear historians!

• Introduction, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)1. Belittling Spain: Hispanophobia and the Mirror Image of Greatness, Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)2. Dealing with Smallness in Hasbsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia in the late-19th and early-20th century, Adrian Brisku (Charles University, Czech Republic and University of Vienna, Austria)3. Smallness and the East-West Binary in Nationalism Studies: Belgium and Romania in the Long 19th Century, Raul Carstocea (University of Flensburg, Germany) & Maarten Van Ginderachter (University of Antwerp, Belgium)4. 'Poor Little Belgium': Food Aid and the Image of Belgian Victimhood in the United States, Marjet Brolsma & Samuël Kruizinga (both University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)5. Science, Health and American Money: Small-State Strategies in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Denmark, Elisabeth Van Meer (College of Charleston, USA), Casper Andersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) & Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)6. Neutral news: Forging a Small States’ Transnational Media Network, 1920 - 1940, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)7. ‘Whoever Says That Serbia Is Small, Is Lying!’: Serbia, Ontological (In)Security and the Unbearable Smallness of Being, Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)8. Iceland's Smallness: Acceptance or Denial?, Baldur Þórhallsson & Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (both University of Iceland, Iceland)10. Great Britain and Little Ireland: Reimagining British and Irish relations in BIPA, Brexit and Beyond, Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus University, Denmark)11. From David to Goliath? The Question of Size in Israel's Identity Politics, Alexei Tsinovoi (Copenhagen University, Denmark)12. Conclusions and Outlook, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) & Karen Gram-Skjoldager (Aarhus University, Denmark)BibliographyGlossaryIndex

Samuël Kruizinga is Senior Lecturer in Military and Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He recently edited, along with Ruud van Dijk, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Rimko van der Maar, Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A Small Country on the Global Scene (2018).

Finally, a full study of how small states experience and narrate their smallness. Welcome to Small State Studies, dear historians!

• Introduction, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)1. Belittling Spain: Hispanophobia and the Mirror Image of Greatness, Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)2. Dealing with Smallness in Hasbsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia in the late-19th and early-20th century, Adrian Brisku (Charles University, Czech Republic and University of Vienna, Austria)3. Smallness and the East-West Binary in Nationalism Studies: Belgium and Romania in the Long 19th Century, Raul Carstocea (University of Flensburg, Germany) & Maarten Van Ginderachter (University of Antwerp, Belgium)4. 'Poor Little Belgium': Food Aid and the Image of Belgian Victimhood in the United States, Marjet Brolsma & Samuël Kruizinga (both University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)5. Science, Health and American Money: Small-State Strategies in Interwar Czechoslovakia and Denmark, Elisabeth Van Meer (College of Charleston, USA), Casper Andersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) & Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)6. Neutral news: Forging a Small States’ Transnational Media Network, 1920 - 1940, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)7. ‘Whoever Says That Serbia Is Small, Is Lying!’: Serbia, Ontological (In)Security and the Unbearable Smallness of Being, Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)8. Iceland's Smallness: Acceptance or Denial?, Baldur Þórhallsson & Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (both University of Iceland, Iceland)10. Great Britain and Little Ireland: Reimagining British and Irish relations in BIPA, Brexit and Beyond, Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus University, Denmark)11. From David to Goliath? The Question of Size in Israel's Identity Politics, Alexei Tsinovoi (Copenhagen University, Denmark)12. Conclusions and Outlook, Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) & Karen Gram-Skjoldager (Aarhus University, Denmark)BibliographyGlossaryIndex