Small state behavior in strategic and intelligence studies: David's sling

Small state behaviour has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies.

Yet, when we analyse the root causes of war, insurrections, rebellions, revolutions and general sociological human behaviour, it is the small state actors that are usually at the epicentre of the tumultuous event.

It is the spark from inside the small state actor - whether it is Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq or Syria - that seemingly leads to internal and external confrontations that inevitably involve much larger states.

To date, a book length analysis like this has yet to be published.

The scope of this project is to provide an analysis of a sampling of small state's behaviour in order to build on a unifying theory of security/intelligence studies.