Revisiting European Security

Author : Hatice Yazgan,Sühal Şemşit
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527560109

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Revisiting European Security by Hatice Yazgan,Sühal Şemşit Pdf

The EU is currently facing multiple crises, ranging from democratic backsliding to migration, and its so-called “rule-based order” is challenged by both internal and international circumstances. Nevertheless, the EU is an evolving international actor and, despite the shortfalls, it has provoked the hopes of being a normative international actor which defends multilateralism and rule-based order. This edited volume re-examines the EU as an international actor and power in the context of recent challenges both in the EU and in international politics, and addresses the following questions: Does the EU make a difference in various regions and issue areas? Is it influential and visible? What kind of a power is the EU regarding these regions? How is the EU perceived by other powers? What are the main threats perceived by the EU and how will the EU address these threats? How will the EU defend its values under current circumstances? This research focuses on the migration and asylum policies of the EU as a key area, and examines the EU’s role as an international actor in neighbouring regions and in Africa and China. The book provides a context in current international circumstances and will be useful for students and practitioners.

Author : Andreas Wenger,Vojtech Mastny,Christian Nuenlist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134080045

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Origins of the European Security System by Andreas Wenger,Vojtech Mastny,Christian Nuenlist Pdf

This edited volume explores the significance of the early ‘Helsinki process’ as a means of redefining and broadening the concept of security during the latter half of the Cold War. The early Helsinki process introduced innovative confidence-building measures, and made human rights a requirement of a legitimate and well-functioning international system, thus providing the framework for disarmament in Europe in the mid-1980s, as well as the inspiration for the later demise of Communism in Europe. Using newly declassified archives, the book explores the positions of the two superpowers and the crucial impact of European Community member states, which introduced European values into the Cold War debate on security. It also shows how Eastern and Central European nations, such as Poland, did not restrict themselves to providing support to Moscow but, rather, pursued interests of their own. The volume sheds light on the complementary role of the neutrals as mediators and special negotiators in the multilateral negotiations; on the interdependence of politics and economics; and on the link between military security and the CSCE process.

Author : Claudia Anamaria Iov
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527550728

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Rethinking (In)Security in the European Union by Claudia Anamaria Iov Pdf

This book is the result of a series of studies devoted to assessing the consequences of migration from the perspective of the migration-identity-(in)security causality, with a specific focus on the Roma issue in France. It demonstrates that, in the context of the new European agenda on security, following the events of 9/11, immigrants, in general and the Roma, in particular, have found themselves trapped in a spiral of insecurity through which migration has been raised to the level of ‘meta-problem’ and they have become scapegoats. The book argues that these issues reflect a broader political discussion on the EU’s identity and social policy. It shows that the socio-economic and security dimension of the ‘Roma dossier’ is a case that may require policymakers in Brussels to rethink the EU’s social responsibilities towards its citizens, thus giving up their ambiguous attitude regarding migration.

Author : William Park,G.Wyn Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317884569

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Rethinking Security in Post-Cold-War Europe by William Park,G.Wyn Rees Pdf

Provides a survey of the principal items on the agenda following the end of the Cold War, focusing upon the institutions and regions where the reconsideration of security issues has been particularly profound. The book is organised into three main sections: the first examines the changed roles of the main security institutions which have survived the Cold War; NATO, the European Union/Western European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second analyses the Central European countries, Russia and States of the former Soviet Union in terms of their ideologies, political structures and relationships of the Cold War period. Lastly the text examines the northern and southern regions of Europe where quite different perspectives and agendas are concerned.

Author : Andreas Wenger,Vojtech Mastny,Christian Nuenlist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134080052

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Origins of the European Security System by Andreas Wenger,Vojtech Mastny,Christian Nuenlist Pdf

This edited volume explores the significance of the early ‘Helsinki process’ as a means of redefining and broadening the concept of security during the latter half of the Cold War. The early Helsinki process introduced innovative confidence-building measures, and made human rights a requirement of a legitimate and well-functioning international system, thus providing the framework for disarmament in Europe in the mid-1980s, as well as the inspiration for the later demise of Communism in Europe. Using newly declassified archives, the book explores the positions of the two superpowers and the crucial impact of European Community member states, which introduced European values into the Cold War debate on security. It also shows how Eastern and Central European nations, such as Poland, did not restrict themselves to providing support to Moscow but, rather, pursued interests of their own. The volume sheds light on the complementary role of the neutrals as mediators and special negotiators in the multilateral negotiations; on the interdependence of politics and economics; and on the link between military security and the CSCE process.

Author : Trine Villumsen Berling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317524809

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The International Political Sociology of Security by Trine Villumsen Berling Pdf

This book builds a theoretical approach to the intractable problem of theory/practice in international relations (IR) and develops tools to study how theory and practice ‘hang together’ in international security. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s political sociology, the book argues that theory and practice take part in struggles over basic understandings (doxa) in international fields through what the book calls doxic battles. In these battles e.g. scientific facts, military hardware and social networks are mobilised as weapons in a fight for recognition. NATO’s transformation and fight for survival and the rapidly growing number of think tanks in European security in the 1990s is taken as an example of these processes. The book studies a variety of sources such as funding to science programmes in Europe; think tanks and research centres in European security; NATO’s relations with the EU, the WEU and the OSCE; and the mobilization of theory at crucial points in the transformation process. Theory as Practice and Capital will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies and critical theory.

Author : Fargion, Valeria,Gazibo, Mamoudou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839109829

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Revisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World by Fargion, Valeria,Gazibo, Mamoudou Pdf

This timely book explores the current state of EU-Africa relations from a multidisciplinary perspective, placing emphasis on recent developments in five areas that are crucial for EU-Africa relations: development cooperation, trade, migration, security and democratization. It considers how Africa’s dependence on the EU has decreased due to the declining importance of development cooperation, and increasing cooperation with emerging powers, notably the BRIC nations.

Author : Mary Kaldor,Iavor Rangelov,Sabine Selchow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351597487

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EU Global Strategy and Human Security by Mary Kaldor,Iavor Rangelov,Sabine Selchow Pdf

This volume examines the EU’s Global Strategy in relation to human security approaches to conflict. Contemporary conflicts are best understood as a social condition in which armed groups mobilise sectarian and fundamentalist sentiments and construct a predatory economy through which they enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary citizens. This volume provides a timely contribution to debates over the role of the EU on the global stage and its contribution to peace and security, at a time when these discussions are reinvigorated by the adoption of the EU Global Strategy. It discusses the significance of the Strategic Review and the Global Strategy for the re-articulation of EU conflict prevention, crisis management, peacebuilding, and development policies in the next few years. It also addresses the key issues facing EU security in the 21st century, including the conflicts in Ukraine, Libya and Syria, border security, cyber-security and the role of the private security sector. The book concludes by proposing that the EU adopts a second-generation human security approach to conflicts, as an alternative to geopolitics or the ‘War on Terror’, taking forward the principles of human security and adapting them to 21st-century realities. This book will be of interest to students of human security, European foreign and security policy, peace and conflict studies, global governance and IR in general.

Author : Furio Cerutti,Rodolfo Ragionieri
Publisher : Crane Russak, Incorporated
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015017701635

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Rethinking European Security by Furio Cerutti,Rodolfo Ragionieri Pdf

This volume contains a first analysis of European security after the INF Treaty. These reflections have three characteristics, beginning with historical and philosophical studies, going on to highlight proposals and finally concentrating on the Mediterranean region.

Author : Ben Tonra
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719060028

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Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy by Ben Tonra Pdf

This text reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions, given that they are not discussed openly, curtail rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.

Author : Isabelle Francois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1619770660

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Rethinking European Security by Isabelle Francois Pdf

Author : Ali Bilgic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136765353

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Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration by Ali Bilgic Pdf

Migration and especially irregular migration are politically sensitive and highly debated issues in the developed world, particularly in Europe. This book analyses irregular protection-seeking migration in Europe, with close attention to sub-Saharan migration into the EU, from the perspective of emancipatory security theory. Some individuals leave their countries because political, social, and economic structures largely fail to provide protection. This book examines how communities respond to migrants who seek protection and security, where migration is perceived as a source of insecurity by many in that community. The central aim of this critical analysis is to explore ideas and practices which can contribute to replacing the political structures of insecurity with emancipatory structures, where individuals (both irregular migrants and members of the receiving communities) enjoy security together, not opposed to each other. Drawing on the security dilemma, critical approaches to security, forced migration and trust, the book demonstrates how common life between two groups of individuals can be politically constructed, in tandem with limitations, risks, and possible handicaps of initiating such a construction in world politics. Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration will be of interest to students and scholars of migration studies, security studies, international relations, European politics and sociology.

Author : David P. Calleo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691113678

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Rethinking Europe's Future by David P. Calleo Pdf

Rethinking Europe's Future is a major reevaluation of Europe's prospects as it enters the twenty-first century. David Calleo has written a book worthy of the complexity and grandeur of the challenges Europe now faces. Summoning the insights of history, political economy, and philosophy, he explains why Europe was for a long time the world's greatest problem and how the Cold War's bipolar partition brought stability of a sort. Without the Cold War, Europe risks revisiting its more traditional history. With so many contingent factors--in particular Russia and Europe's Muslim neighbors--no one, Calleo believes, can pretend to predict the future with assurance. Calleo's book ponders how to think about this future. The book begins by considering the rival ''lessons'' and trends that emerge from Europe's deeper past. It goes on to discuss the theories for managing the traditional state system, the transition from autocratic states to communitarian nation states, the enduring strength of nation states, and their uneasy relationship with capitalism. Calleo next focuses on the Cold War's dynamic legacies for Europe--an Atlantic Alliance, a European Union, and a global economy. These three systems now compete to define the future. The book's third and major section examines how Europe has tried to meet the present challenges of Russian weakness and German reunification. Succeeding chapters focus on Maastricht and the Euro, on the impact of globalization on Europeanization, and on the EU's unfinished business--expanding into ''Pan Europe,'' adapting a hybrid constitution, and creating a new security system. Calleo presents three models of a new Europe--each proposing a different relationship with the U.S. and Russia. A final chapter probes how a strong European Union might affect the world and the prospects for American hegemony. This is a beautifully written book that offers rich insight into a critical moment in our history, whose outcome will shape the world long after our time.

Author : S. Giusti,G. Grevi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8855268147

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Facing War: Rethinking Europe's Security and Defence by S. Giusti,G. Grevi Pdf

Author : Serena Giusti,Giovanni Grevi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Security, International
ISBN : 8855268163

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Facing War by Serena Giusti,Giovanni Grevi Pdf

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has sent shockwaves across Europe and the world. While the current war is a geopolitical turning point, it remains unclear whether it will trigger a quantum leap forward for European defence policies and for the role of the European Union as a security provider. This Report investigates whether we can expect a further convergence of European strategic cultures, and on collaboration among Europeans to generate the required military capabilities and integrate their forces. Most importantly, it finds that the timely implementation of the EU’s Strategic Compass will be a decisive test to establish whether Europeans are rising to the challenge of taking more responsibility for their security and defence.