Survival Strategies of Small States: Comparative Analysis of Ukraine - Finland
Journal: Optimum Ekonomi ve Yönetim Bilimleri Dergisi
Year: 2024

The purpose of this article is to analyze the strategies of small states against a neighboring nuclear big power and to contribute to the literature by explaining the reasons for the difference in small-state strategies. The case of Finland, a small country that did not join NATO during the Cold War, is a sui generis case. “Finlandization” refers to the foreign policy of Finland as a small state to survive against the communist Soviet Union, which was a powerful geopolitical neighbor during the