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ESSI seeks to create more sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible societies in small countries in Europe and worldwide.

About Us

“The idea for ESSI grew from a desire to showcase the potential in the uniqueness of European small states.”

Small states have consistently provided models for others to follow; out of necessity, microcosms nurture fertile imaginations that are able to visualize countless possibilities for the future. These frameworks are often based on creating “a world within a world” to make small countries attractive to investors, entrepreneurs, visitors, and the international community. This process has improved citizens’ lives and provided a prototype for the modern small state: A responsible and vibrant environment conducive to economic growth and social development.

Through this strategy of “focus through convergence,” ESSI addresses the challenges facing modern small states – particularly in the European context, generates ideas in its areas of expertise, and creates platforms for the implementation of these ideas in Europe and the wider world.

Increasingly, however, perfecting proven core competencies and leveraging past achievements to expand into new growth areas requires novel ways of harnessing the capabilities underpinning a country’s accomplishments. While small states are ipso facto laboratories for novel solutions to such problems, and much can be learned and applied from these varied efforts, these countries also share specific concerns and common interests when confronting such challenges. This has created a situation ripe with synergies and ways of working together; ESSI has been formed to facilitate and draw most benefit from this process.

ESSI aids in realizing the potential of collaboration by developing and promoting research among the small states of Europe. As an independent entity, ESSI functions as a locus for advanced scholarship and focused inquiry with a commitment to the highest standards. ESSI links research, theory, and practice through a structure that allows it to draw from the best that the international community has to offer. The result is an invigorating learning and intellectual environment with depth and flexibility in research resources, and funding stable enough to ensure that it will continue to operate into the foreseeable future.

To fulfill its mandate, ESSI integrates scholarly and research interests in three broad subject areas: Applied management and corporate development, government and public policy (including international law and organizations; diplomacy, history, and politics; and global public policy), and cultural affairs.

Monaco is a natural home for ESSI

The Principality counts 125 nationalities in its population, and exemplifies the way in which a sovereign state enacts laws to protect those living within its confines in a democratic, systematic way.

Further, the Principality’s success is based not only on its openness to the world, but on the way it has exhibited a respect for differences and a willingness to embrace the unfamiliar, and displayed a profound desire for peace.

ESSI is committed to edifying its constituent populations, to providing a forum for free and open debate, and to reflecting national values.

ESSI seeks to create more sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible societies in small countries in Europe and worldwide.

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About Us

About Us

“The idea for ESSI grew from a desire to showcase the potential in the uniqueness of European small states.”

Monaco is a natural home for ESSI

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