... and insights from international relations, international law, Islamic law, Islamic culture, religious studies, legal history and European as well as international political history. Findings While the empirical part of Powell’s work (chapters 5, 6 and 7) shows a methodologically veryc well done approach...

... This topic sheds light on the hypotheses of theories of main international relations, which explain the behavior of foreign policy of small states. This is due to the increased number of such states after the disintegration of Soviet Union, the practice of some countries an effective foreign role...