Some of the biggest challenges states in the Western Balkans are facing since the end of the Cold War are non-traditional security threats. Although recent studies have argued that “history has returned” and that traditional security threats have come back to become core challenges for...

Even though small states, throughout their existence, have constituted the majority of countries in the international system, the academic field of IR theory did not consider them very relevant in their analysis. This paper aims to analyze and highlight the approach that authors and theories of...