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Examines the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and looks at the ways in which the international community has responded to conflicts. The contributors explore how an understanding of the ethical may be developed from the articulation of dilemmas encountered

The past two decades have been a time of turmoil in Thailand's religious affairs. Disputes, debates and controversies concerning the administration of Buddhism, Thailand's national religion by tradition, have erupted more and more frequently. This chronic and unresolvable conflict originates from Thai Buddhists' inability to achieve a broad consensus on religious reform. Under the governance of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) junta that came to power in 2014, the fierce struggle concerning Buddhist reform seemed to subside. Upholding and protecting Buddhism might be a duty of traditional Thai rulers who desire for a source of political legitimacy, but the NCPO's decisive actions concerning Buddhist institutional reform were not merely reflected respect for this tradition, but were closely intertwined with the dynamic of contending forces in Thailand's long-troubled religious politics. Conflicts between the influential religious nationalists and the Thai Sangha convinced the military government of the need to act, for the sake of national security and political stability.

Case studies of postwar Japan and Finland; based on conference paper.

Part I. Historico-Political Contours of Citizenship -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Transformative Citizenship in Perspective -- Chapter 2: State-Society Relations and Citizenship Regimes in East Asia -- Chapter 3: Political Citizenship without Democratic Social Representation -- Part II. Citizenship as Transformative Contributory Rights -- Chapter 4: Developmental Citizenship and Its Discontents -- Chapter 5: Social Citizenship between Developmental Liberalism and Neoliberalism -- Chapter 6: Education as Citizenship, or Citizenship by Education -- Chapter 7: Reproductive Contributory Rights: From Patriarchal to Patriotic Fertility? -- Chapter 8: Ad Hoc Cultural Citizenship: Neotraditional to Multicultural (Non)transition -- Chapter 9: Risk Citizenship in Complex Risk Society -- Part III. Whither Post-Transformative Citizenship -- Chapter 10: Transformative Citizenship, Transformative Victimhood.

One of the important trends in the development of international relations in the second half of the 20th — early 21st centuries is the growing importance of small states in international relations. From passive "pawns" in the big political games of the great powers, they are turning into active players capable of pursuing their own national interests in the international arena. During the Cold War period, European neutral states acquired an unique experience of fruitful cooperation in international organizations, peaceful mediation and peacemaking. Multilateral diplomacy, renunciation of the use of force, striving for a peaceful political resolution of conflicts predetermine, to a certain extent, interest in studying the experience of small countries. The decline in the ability of the leading great powers to resolve conflicts effectively on the periphery of the international system, on the other hand, the capability of small countries to generate new ideas and norms in international relations create preconditions for a further increase in the role of small countries in international relations. It is necessary to study not only the great powers, but also the small countries that make up the vast majority of states, if we want to understand the nature of international relations in general, the formation and behavior of modern coalitions and alliances in particular. This article aims to identify the main stages of the study of small states in international relations, to analyze the main approaches to the definition of the concept of "small state", to consider the factors of formation of the foreign policy of small states through the prism of some theories of international relations, to find out the features of the foreign policy behavior of small countries in international relations.