A Critical Approach To European Security

Author : Przemysław Grudziński
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Approach to European Security written by Przemysław Grudziński and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the key elements of Europe's dynamic security framework. It analyzes how European institutions and their policies influence the security of the continent, looking also at the broader political setting, in particular how the development of a European identity might influence European security. It aims to bring clarity into the often muddled discussion on European security and elucidates some of the concepts that are central to the current discourse on the topic.

Author : Ioannis Vasileiou
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090467416
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union: A Critical Approach (2nd Fully Revised Edition) written by Ioannis Vasileiou and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union's Foreign and Security Policy is aimed at a substantial crises prevention and management, as well as the efficacious building and restoration of peace, democracy and sociopolitical stability in all the "danger zones" within its jurisdiction. Moreover, its foremost concern is the establishment of effective economic and trade relations with partners all over the globe. In this book, the overall functioning of the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy is being critcally examined, the Union's relations with the USA and Russia are being meticulously analyzed, the dominant economic and trade partners are being systematically presented and the principal events that resulted in destabilizations from the end of World War II, to the recent crises in Ukraine, Crimea, the Middle East and North Africa are being rigorously scrutinized. The first edition of this book was published in Greek by Historical Quest in 2015. It was translated into English and updated by the author himself in 2019.

Author : David J. Galbreath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351235605
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary European Security written by David J. Galbreath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary European Security explores the complex European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject. Written by experts in each subfield, it addresses key topics within the wider strategic context of international security. Presenting traditional and critical debates to illuminate this ever-changing field it addresses specifically: European security since 2000 and the end of the Cold War. The evolution of International Relations theories in understanding security in Europe. The role of NATO in the post-war period and its strategy, impact and enlargement. The institutionalisation of the CSCE and the political tensions within the OSCE. The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy and recent policy initiatives in defence. Feminist conceptions of European security. European military innovation. Security challenges in the post-Soviet space and the growing instability in the Middle East and North Africa. The emergence of human security. Internal and societal security. This essential textbook will be of key interests to students and scholars of European Security, Security and Military studies, Strategic Studies, European Politics and International Relations.

Author : Peter Van Ham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137518
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping European security after Kosovo written by Peter Van Ham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In the story of post-Cold War conceptual confusion, the war in and over Kosovo stands out as a particularly interesting episode. This book provides new and stimulating perspectives on how Kosovo has shaped the new Europe. It breaks down traditional assumptions in the field of security studies by sidelining the theoretical worldview that underlies mainstream strategic thinking on recent events in Kosovo. The book offers a conceptual overview of the Kosovo debate, placing these events in the context of globalisation, European integration and the discourse of modernity and its aftermath. It then examines Kosovo's impact on the idea of war. One of the great paradoxes of the war in Kosovo was that it was not just one campaign but two: there was the ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo and the allied bombing campaign against targets in Kosovo and all over Serbia. Serbia's killing of Kosovo has set the parameters of the Balkanisation-integration nexus, offering 'Europe' (and the West in general) a unique opportunity to suggest itself as the strong centre that keeps the margins from running away. Next, it investigates 'Kosovo' as a product of the decay of modern institutions and discourses like sovereignty, statehood, the warring state or the United Nations system. 'Kosovo' has introduced new overtones into the European Weltanschauung and the ways in which 'Europe' asserts itself as an independent power discourse in a globalising world: increasingly diffident, looking for firm foundations in the conceptual void of the turn of the century.

Author : Adam Bronstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351736000
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Security into the Twenty-First Century written by Adam Bronstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: Both NATO and the European Union are in the early stages of enlargement processes that will see both organizations expand to include a number of former Communist countries from Central Europe. Simultaneously, these processes ignore and exclude the interests and concerns of Russia and Turkey, respectively in the name of European security. Are both of these processes condemned to fail because of what was left out, rather than put in, to the organizational mix of both alliances? Is the leadership of NATO, for example, making the single largest, and costliest, blunder in the history of the organization? And is this being done, as well as that by the European Union, in part because of narrowly-held theoretical perspectives that define security in the most minimalist terms? Too often these processes of enlargement are discussed both out of context and in seclusion from one another, as if neither affects the other in any way, shape or form. This work brings together both processes of enlargement in order to examine whether or not similar mistakes are being made by both organizations, with grave practical consequences. This work will also examine both processes of enlargement from a critical perspective in that it will challenge the theoretically-driven conventional wisdoms of both processes. By doing so, this work will illustrate the need to go beyond these theories of International Relations and advocate the use of a number of non-traditional and very alternative positions that will assist one in developing richer, more comprehensive and inclusive explanations and understandings of these processes, as well as the field of International Relations in general. This work seeks to challenge the current state of International Relations, broadly defined, on its own ground in the hopes of presenting and developing, something newer and exciting for tomorrow.

Author : Didier Bigo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429957491
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies written by Didier Bigo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and paradigms and addresses four main thematic areas pertaining to the study of the European Union and its policies: • Critical approaches to European integration; • Critical approaches to European political economy; • Critical approaches to the EU’s internal security; • Critical approaches to the EU’s external relations and foreign affairs. In their contributions to this volume, the authors take a sympathetic yet critical approach to the European integration process and the present structures of the European Union. Furthermore, the book provides graduate students and faculty with ideas for future research activity and introduces critical analyses rooted in a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives. The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Union Studies will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners interested and working in the fields of EU politics/studies, European integration, European political economy and public policy, EU foreign policy, EU freedom of movement and security practices, and more broadly in international relations, the wider social sciences and humanities.

Author : Karin M. Fierke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509501673
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to International Security written by Karin M. Fierke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new challenges to international stability, such as environmental degradation, immigration and terrorism. The second edition of this popular and highly respected text offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of the growing field of critical security studies. All the chapters have been fully revised and updated to map the on-going evolution of debates about international security since 1989, including the more recent shift in emphasis from critiques of the realist practices of states to those of global liberal governance. Topics covered include the relationship between security and change, identity, the production of danger, fear and trauma, human insecurity and emancipation. The book explores the meaning and use of these concepts and their relevance to real-life situations ranging from the War on Terror to the Arab Spring, migration, suffering in war, failed states and state-building, and the changing landscape of the international system, with the emergence of a multipolar world and the escalation of global climate change. Written with verve and clarity and incorporating new seminar activities and questions for class discussion, this book will be an invaluable resource for students of international relations and security studies.

Author : X. Kurowska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230355722
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy written by X. Kurowska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP.

Author : Laura Chappell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317481070
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The EU, Strategy and Security Policy written by Laura Chappell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions. Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has yet to acquire a clear sense of purpose. This book investigates those areas where the EU has established actorness in the security and defence field and asks whether they might constitute the elements of an emergent more coherent EU strategy on security. Taking a critical view, the contributors map the EU’s strategic vision(s) across particular key regions where the EU has been active as a security actor, the strategic challenges that it has pinpointed alongside the opportunities and barriers posed by a multiplicity of actors, interests and priorities identified by both member states and EU actors. By doing this we demonstrate where gaps in strategic thinking lie, where the EU has been unable to achieve its aims, and offer recommendations concerning the EU’s future strategic direction. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, strategic studies and IR in general.

Author : Lorenzo Cladi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317534875
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations Theory and European Security written by Lorenzo Cladi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with key contemporary European security issues from a variety of different theoretical standpoints, in an attempt to uncover the drivers of foreign policy and defence integration in the EU. Although European foreign policy has been attracting an ever-increasing number of International Relations (IR) scholars since the end of the Cold War, consensus on what drives European foreign policy integration has not yet emerged. This book seeks to encourage debate on this issue by examining a wide range of high-profile security issues which have roused significant interest from policy makers, academics and the public in recent years. The volume discusses, amongst other issues, the strategic posture of the European Union as a security actor, the troubled relationship with Russia, the debate regarding France’s relations with the US following France’s rapprochement with NATO and the EU’s influence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The collective intent of the contributors to highlight the drivers of EU foreign policy and defence integration ties together the wide variety of topics covered in this volume, forming it into a comprehensive overview of this issue. By paying considerable attention not just to the internal drivers of EU cooperation, but also to the critical role played by the US as an incentive or obstacle to European security, this book presents a unique contribution to this field of debate. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, IR theory, Transatlantic Relations, European politics and EU foreign policy.