Regions and powers : the structure of international security /

Buzan and Wæver argue that in the post-Cold War world regional patterns of security are more important than ever before. Analysing regions throughout the world, this original and comprehensive study offers a distinctive interpretation of the nature of the 'new world security order' that ha...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Buzan, Barry
Другие авторы: Wæver, Ole, 1960-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
©2003
Серии:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 91.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=125090
Оглавление:
  • Theories and histories about the structure of contemporary international security
  • Levels : distinguishing the regional from the global
  • Security complexes : a theory of regional security
  • South Asia : inching towards internal and external transformation
  • Northeast and Southeast Asian RSCs during the Cold War
  • The 1990s and beyond : an emergent EastAsian complex
  • The Middle East : a perennial conflict formation
  • Sub-Saharan Africa : security dynamics in a setting of weak and failed states
  • Conclusions
  • North America : the sole superpower and its surroundings
  • South America : an under-conflictual anomaly?
  • EU-Europe : the European Union and its 'near abroad'
  • The Balkans and Turkey
  • The post-Soviet space : a regional security complex
  • Conclusions : scenarios for the European supercomplex
  • Regions and powers : summing up and looking ahead
  • Reflections on conceptualising international security.