Agency, Security and Governance of Small States examines what seems to be a defining paradox of Small-State Studies: the simultaneous coexistence (and possible co-dependence) of vulnerability and opportunity related to small-state size.

Introduction: Agency, Security, and Governance of Small States in a Fast-Changing World Part I - Small-State Theory: Reviewing the State of the Art, Communis Opinio, and Beyond 1. The Power (Politics) of the Weak Revisited: Realism and the Study of Small-State Foreign Policy 2. A Theory of Shelter: Small-State Behaviour in International Relations 3. The Graded Agency of Small States Part II - Agency: The Art of Being Governed by One's Own Interests 4. Forever Small? A Longue Durée Perspective on Luxembourg's Extantism, Governance, and Security 5. Security in the Spanish Philippines (1565-1821): Shelter-Seeking and Securitisation in an Early Modern Colony 6. Negotiating Smallness in Three Regional Contexts: Belize within Central America, the Caribbean, and Neighbouring Mexico 7. What is a Small-State Security Policy? 'Transpolitical Propagation' in the Case of Luxembourg, Singapore, and Lithuania Part III - Security: Defining and Engaging Threats 8. Small States in the Pacific: Sovereignty, Vulnerability, and Regionalism 9. Security and Securitisation in the Pacific Islands: From Great-Power Competition to Climate Change and Back Again 10. Cape Verde and the Defence and Security Challenges in the Atlantic Corridor: The Case of the Approach to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) 11. "Let's Forget that Slovakia is Small": GLOBSEC, Status-Seeking, and Agency in Informal Elite Networks Part IV - Governance: Interactions Between Domestic and International Norms, Rules, and Action 12. The Rise of 'Democracy' in Luxembourg's Second World War Government in Exile: Agency and Leadership at a Critical Juncture of Luxembourg's Small-State Foreign Policy 13. Between Formal and Informal Democracy: How the Domestic Politics of Small States Influences their Security Policies 14. African Small Island Developing States (ASIDS) and Good International Citizenship Conclusion: Insecurity of Their Own Making? A Comparative Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Analysis of Small-State Governance