The Diplomacy Strategies of Semi-state Political Entities: A Case Study of Baltic States / 準國家政治實體的外交策略--以波羅的海三國為例

碩士 / 國立暨南國際大學 / 公共行政與政策學系 / 97 / Most studies explored international relationships in the perspectives of either state or non-state. However, semi-state, a different kind of political entities, can also influence other states through many kinds of diplomacy strategies to achieve their aims, especially in the nation-building.
This thesis aims at analyze the diplomacy strategies of semi-states from the case of Baltic States, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The author reviews their history from 1939 to 1991 first, then analyze how the actors, semi-state political entities, effect the international system through the diplomacy strategies and achieve their goals as independence states. Further, we will compare with the differences of the above strategies between states and semi-state political entities.
The thesis divides into five chapters. The first chapter is an introduction explaining the range, reasons and purposes of this research. The second chapter is theories review, including international system theories, diplomacy decision making theories, nonviolent resistance strategy theory and the author will explain the reasons why we adopt the four factors: political system, economic system, ethnic and religious to analyze why the semi-state political entities always pursuit their independence. The third and the fourth chapter are history reviews and analysis in which we discover the individual characters of the three semi-state political entities in the process of independence. The last chapter will summarize all the findings and ideas as conclusion.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097NCNU0054029
Date January 2009
CreatorsShiao, Hao-Jia, 蕭豪珈
ContributorsAbraham K. M. Leong, 梁錦文
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format126

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