In as much as international bodies and agreements lower the costs of having borders, small nations that would like to have states see them as more affordable.
Compensation is an increasingly hot issue in the talks, with small nations demanding the inclusion in any 2015 agreement of a "loss and damage mechanism" whereby rich nations would pay them to rebuild from, say, extreme storms.
In an interview to be broadcast early next week, Mr Grimsson told the Newsnight programme's Joe Lynam that his country was surrounded by an arc of successful, small nations in the North Sea, who were all doing relatively well.
We, the ninety-six youth of thirty-one Small Island Developing States and six other small island nations with other affiliates, thank you.
An African bloc walkout during prepatory talks in Barcelona in November proved unpopular with other developing countries, in particular some small island nations.
While Norway and Sweden are held up as examples of small northern nations doing nicely despite wider Europe's problems, Scotland's 4.4% contraction is on the level with Denmark and Finland.
It's not just small towns, although in wealthy nations, small communities may face the most extreme effects.
One of them continues from the 2007 strategy - that of matching the average growth rate of small European Union nations by 2017.
China is invoking a 1970 United Nations convention that protects nations small, weak or in conflict from having their cultural patrimony plundered by rich outsiders.
Russia political pundits believe that Putin is more interested in created a free trade zone within Eurasia, tapping small and poor nations like Belarus and even Kazakhstan, both not members of the WTO.
Few nations so small have had such an enormous impact on another.
The cost, especially for small amounts sent to nations with a less well-developed financial sector, can be as much as 20% of the sum, according to the World Bank.
In the final hours of the conference, the governments of small, sinking island nations were delighted to learn that they, and not some global body, would control a fund to help them adapt to a warming world.
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According to this thinking, single nations are too small to maintain high-cost social-welfare models in the face of global competition.
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The next step came in Austria, on April 30th, when the United States joined 45 other countries in promising to work for a United Nations protocol on small-arms traffic.
They are ubiquitous, in small amounts, in industrialised nations.
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However, since Greece shares the Euro with 15 other nations and is a very small portion of Euro-zone economic activity, most of the real income adjustment has to come through declining money wages, benefits, etc.
For years, those of us in the realms of social justice, biology, ecosystem integrity, the crises of extinctions and the ever-challenging questions of custodial jurisdiction over the endemic and native seeds that make or break small farmers, particularly in economically stressed nations, has posed unique legal, biocultural and intellectual hurdles, some battered by allegations that many farmers, desperate to hold on, have committed suicide.
Social organizations scale from small parties of a few adventurers to player nations inhabited by thousands.
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The retired rower then passed it to the young athletes, who lit part of the outer rim of the torch, setting off a domino effect as fire spread to 205 small metal "petals, " symbolizing the nations taking part.
Frustration at slow progress of the UN climate talks bubbled over when a spokesman for small island states (AOSIS) rounded on rich nations.
But even more pertinent is the huge variation in their national interests, between those such as low-lying small islands that may literally cease to exist as nations as the sea level rises, and the oil-producing states of the Persian Gulf and Opec for whom the priority is to keep the oil and gas flowing.
Small island states and many of the world's poorest nations are demanding that Cancun must see agreement of a legally binding global treaty, but many others are pushing for a "bottom-up" approach that would seek small but concrete agreements in key areas such as REDD.
Its purpose is to guarantee access to space for the small satellites (up to 2.5 tonnes) built by European nations.
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The United Nations -- the United States will work with any nation, large or small, that will contribute to a world that is more peaceful and more prosperous, and more just and more free.
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But after a short meeting with President Bill Clinton last month at the United Nations, he seems to have quietly decided to drop his opposition to a small American military outpost on Aruba, which services drug-surveillance planes.
Until the capture of British soldiers, the West Side Boys, a small ill-disciplined group with a reputation for taking drugs and alcohol, were largely ignored by the United Nations, the Sierra Leonean Government and Britain.
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