OPEN States in the Global Economy : The Political Economy of Small State Macroeconomic Management In response to the largely closed economy assumptions of most cross national work on economic policy making Open States in the Global Economy offers an outside in framework for analyzing the way in which national economic sovereignty is affected by globalization. This framework is then applied to a detailed case study of Norways economic policy in the postwar period. The Open State framework offers a new way to interpret how external changes affect domestic policy makers and their preferences