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Regions and powers : The structure of international security / Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge studies in international relations ; 91Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: xxiv, 564 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 052181412X (hardback)
  • 0521891116 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.116 BUZ 22
LOC classification:
  • JZ5330 .B89 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Content : Part 1. Introduction: Developing a Regional Approach to Global Security: 1. Theories and histories about the structure of contemporary international security 2. Levels: distinguishing the regional from the global 3. Security complexes: a theory of regional security Part II. Asia: 4. South Asia: inching towards internal and external transformation 5. Northeast and southeast Asian security complexes during the Cold War 6. The 1990s and beyond: an emergent east Asian complex Conclusion Part III. The Middle East and Africa: Introduction 7. The Middle East: a perennial conflict formation 8. Sub-saharan Africa: security dynamics in a setting of weak and failed states Conclusions Part IV. The Americas: 9. North America: the sole superpower and its surroundings 10. South America: an under-conflictual anomaly? Conclusion: scenarios for the RSCs of the Americas Part V. The Europes: Introduction 11. EU-Europe: the European Union and its 'near abroad' 12. The Balkans and Turkey 13. The post-Soviet space: a regional security complex around Russia Conclusion: scenarios for the european supercomplex Part VI. Conclusions: 14. Regions and powers: summing up and looking ahead 15. Reflections on conceptualising international security.
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BOOKs . General Stacks 327.116 BUZ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available 36520

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-542) and indexes.

Content :
Part 1. Introduction: Developing a Regional Approach to Global Security: 1. Theories and histories about the structure of contemporary international security
2. Levels: distinguishing the regional from the global
3. Security complexes: a theory of regional security
Part II. Asia: 4. South Asia: inching towards internal and external transformation
5. Northeast and southeast Asian security complexes during the Cold War
6. The 1990s and beyond: an emergent east Asian complex
Conclusion
Part III. The Middle East and Africa: Introduction
7. The Middle East: a perennial conflict formation
8. Sub-saharan Africa: security dynamics in a setting of weak and failed states
Conclusions
Part IV. The Americas: 9. North America: the sole superpower and its surroundings
10. South America: an under-conflictual anomaly?
Conclusion: scenarios for the RSCs of the Americas
Part V. The Europes: Introduction
11. EU-Europe: the European Union and its 'near abroad'
12. The Balkans and Turkey
13. The post-Soviet space: a regional security complex around Russia
Conclusion: scenarios for the european supercomplex
Part VI. Conclusions: 14. Regions and powers: summing up and looking ahead
15. Reflections on conceptualising international security.