Dr. Baldur Thorhallsson has published extensively on small states, Iceland’s foreign policy, and European integration. In 2002 he established the Centre for Small State Studies and re-established the Icelandic Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland. He chaired both those institutions until 2011. He has run an annual Small States Summer School at the University of Iceland since 2003. Baldur has completed one monograph, two edited books, 24 journal articles, and 15 book chapters on small states. Several of these are widely taught in courses on small states.

Selected Publications

1. Bailes, Alyson JK, Baldur Thorhallsson and Rachel Lorna Johnstone. 2013. “Scotland as an Independent Small State: Where would it seek shelter?” Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration 9(1): 1-20.
2. Bailes, Alyson JK and Baldur Thorhallsson. 2013. “Instrumentalizing the European Union in Small State Strategy.” Journal of European Integration 35(2): 99-115.
3. Thorhallsson, Baldur and Peadar Kirby. 2012. “Financial crisis in Iceland and Ireland: Does EU and Euro membership matter?” Journal of Common Market Studies 50(5): 801-808.