............................................................................................................. 2 Acknowledgement ................................................................................................ 5 Chapter 1: Introduction ......................................................................................... 9 Chapter 2: What is a microstate? Towards a new definition of Micro-Statehood ........... 14 Small States in International Politics and Academia .............................................. 14 The Perplexing Rise of Small States ................................................................ 14 How Small is Small? ..................................................................................... 16 The Existing Approaches to Defining Microstates ............................................... 16 The Problem of Size ...................................................................................... 17 The Problem of Statehood ............................................................................. 20 Microstates as Modern Protected States: Towards a New Definition ........................ 22 The League of Nations and the Lilliputian States ............................................... 22 Lilliputians as Protected States ....................................................................... 23 Microstates as Modern Protected States ........................................................... 25 Conclusion ................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 3: Theoretical Framework and Methodology ............................................... 32 Theoretical Framework ..................................................................................... 32 Introduction ................................................................................................. 32 Context: From Dependency to Managed or Mismanaged Dependency .................. 32 Management of Benign Protection ................................................................... 37 Formation of Benign Protection Arrangements .................................................. 38 Management of Benign Protection and Economic Development ........................... 42 Methodology ................................................................................................... 48 Case Analysis and Selection ........................................................................... 49 Advantages of studying microstates ................................................................ 52 Data collection ............................................................................................. 52 Challenges and Limitations ............................................................................ 53 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 54 Chapter 4: The Principality of Liechtenstein ............................................................ 56 Introduction .................................................................................................... 57 Territory, Location and Population ...................................................................... 59 Political System ............................................................................................... 60 History prior to Sovereign Statehood .................................................................. 63 Early History ................................................................................................ 63 The Birth of the Principality of Liechtenstein as a Distinct Political Unit ................. 64 First Micro-statehood: Association with Austria .................................................... 66

Political Survival and Economic Development in Microstates: The Cases of Liechtenstein, the Cook Islands and Niue

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