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By combining perspectives from experts in domestic politics,
regional politics, and specialists in international security, this
edited volume focuses on the central role of energy production and
supply in the Russian-Western completion across Eurasia.
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary
theory, practice and themes in the study of national security. Part
1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised
and formulated within the disciplines international relations,
security studies and public policy. Part 2: Actors shifts the focus
of the volume from these disciplinary concerns to consideration of
how core actors in international affairs have conceptualised and
practiced national security over time. Part 3: Issues then provides
in-depth analysis of how individual security issues have been
incorporated into prevailing scholarly and policy paradigms on
national security. While security now seems an all-encompassing
phenomenon, one general proposition still holds: national interests
and the nation-state remain central to unlocking security puzzles.
As normative values intersect with raw power; as new threats meet
old ones; and as new actors challenge established elites, making
sense out of the complex milieu of security theories, actors, and
issues is a crucial task - and is the main accomplishment of this
book.
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary
theory, practice and themes in the study of national security. Part
1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised
and formulated within the disciplines international relations,
security studies and public policy. Part 2: Actors shifts the focus
of the volume from these disciplinary concerns to consideration of
how core actors in international affairs have conceptualised and
practiced national security over time. Part 3: Issues then provides
in-depth analysis of how individual security issues have been
incorporated into prevailing scholarly and policy paradigms on
national security. While security now seems an all-encompassing
phenomenon, one general proposition still holds: national interests
and the nation-state remain central to unlocking security puzzles.
As normative values intersect with raw power; as new threats meet
old ones; and as new actors challenge established elites, making
sense out of the complex milieu of security theories, actors, and
issues is a crucial task - and is the main accomplishment of this
book.
The central objective of this edited volume is to help unlock a set
of intriguing puzzles relating to changing power dynamics in
Eurasia, a region that is critically important in the changing
international security landscape.
In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence
has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the
state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand
political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores
the complex relationship between the state and its continued use of
violence through a variety of historical and contemporary case
studies, including the Napoleonic Wars, Nazi and Soviet
'eliticide', the consolidation of authority in modern China,
post-Soviet Russia, and international criminal tribunals. It also
looks at humanitarian intervention in cases of organised violence,
and the willingness of elites to alter their attitude to violence
if it is an instrument to achieve their own ends. The
interdisciplinary approach, which spans history, sociology,
international law and International Relations, ensures that this
book will be invaluable to a broad cross-section of scholars and
politically engaged readers alike. -- .
In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence
has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the
state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand
political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores
the complex relationship between the state and its continued use of
violence through a variety of historical and contemporary case
studies, including the Napoleonic Wars, Nazi and Soviet
'eliticide', the consolidation of authority in modern China,
post-Soviet Russia, and international criminal tribunals. It also
looks at humanitarian intervention in cases of organised violence,
and the willingness of elites to alter their attitude to violence
if it is an instrument to achieve their own ends. The
interdisciplinary approach, which spans history, sociology,
international law and International Relations, ensures that this
book will be invaluable to a broad cross-section of scholars and
politically engaged readers alike. -- .
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is emerging as a vital lynch-pin
in China's efforts to establish a maritime and continental zone of
influence in the Indo-Pacific region. The Belt and Road Initiative
and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific interrogates
to what extent BRI represents an achievable vision of a
China-centric order in Asia and explores its major security
implications for the region. The contributions to this volume
provide up-to-date analysis of the effect of BRI on the region's
foreign policy and alliance patterns, its connection to
geo-economics and domestic Chinese politics, and the policy
responses of key Indo-Pacific actors. While acknowledging that BRI
remains prey to a variety of internal and exogenous shocks, the
contributors conclude that at the very least BRI will continue to
disrupt the existing alignments of economic and strategic interests
in the Indo-Pacific and that on this minimal basis BRI will likely
be judged a success by China. For regional actors, however, the BRI
simultaneously enhances choice while presenting strategic and
economic risks of greater dependency on China - a dilemma
intensified by the disruptive effects of the Trump administration
on regional confidence in the longevity of American commitments and
leadership.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is emerging as a vital lynch-pin
in China's efforts to establish a maritime and continental zone of
influence in the Indo-Pacific region. The Belt and Road Initiative
and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific interrogates
to what extent BRI represents an achievable vision of a
China-centric order in Asia and explores its major security
implications for the region. The contributions to this volume
provide up-to-date analysis of the effect of BRI on the region's
foreign policy and alliance patterns, its connection to
geo-economics and domestic Chinese politics, and the policy
responses of key Indo-Pacific actors. While acknowledging that BRI
remains prey to a variety of internal and exogenous shocks, the
contributors conclude that at the very least BRI will continue to
disrupt the existing alignments of economic and strategic interests
in the Indo-Pacific and that on this minimal basis BRI will likely
be judged a success by China. For regional actors, however, the BRI
simultaneously enhances choice while presenting strategic and
economic risks of greater dependency on China - a dilemma
intensified by the disruptive effects of the Trump administration
on regional confidence in the longevity of American commitments and
leadership.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conflict in the former USSR
has been a key concern in international security. This book fills a
gap in the literature on violent conflict, evaluating a region that
contains all the modern ingredients for instability and aggression.
Bringing together leading experts on war and security, the book
addresses current debates in international relations about power,
interests, globalisation, and the politics of identity as major
drivers of contemporary war. Incidents such as the 2008
Russo-Georgian conflict, the wars in Chechnya, and Russia's
struggles over national identity and resources with the Ukraine and
Moldova over the Crimea and the Trans-Dneister are all thoroughly
examined. With new issues like energy security, terrorism and
transnational crime, and older tensions between East and West
threatening to deepen once more, this is an important contribution
to the international security literature.
Much scholarly attention has been paid to the United States'
response to the events of 9/11. This timely volume broadens our
understanding of the impact of the attacks by considering instead
their consequences for European security and for the relationship
between the US and leading European states. The book places into
theoretical context the notion that the world changed by assessing
shifting conceptions of security and warfare, linking this to new
thinking in these areas. It also critically evaluates the idea that
the war against terrorism is a manifestation of a cultural clash
between the West and Islam, and provides detailed evaluations of
British, French, German and Russian reactions to 9/11 and the
subsequent war on Iraq. Bringing together an impressive collection
of experts this work will be an excellent resource for courses on
international security, European politics, and international
relations.
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