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...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are a group of 39 United Nations (UN) member states and 18 dependent territories mostly located in the Caribbean and Oceania. They are among the most vulnerable countries to losses and damages from climate change globally, and they are especially exposed to...

This paper reexamines the standard welfare analysis of export subsidies under perfect competition, pointing out that the prevailing textbook analysis ignores the incentives of foreign producers to sell at the highest price possible, which may be in the domestic market. This substantially alters...