Security CommunitiesEmanuel Adler, Michael Barnett, Professor of Political Science Michael Barnett, Steve Smith This book argues that community can exist at the international level, and that security politics is profoundly shaped by it, with states dwelling within an international community having the capacity to develop a pacific disposition. By investigating the relationship between international community and the possibility for peaceful change, this book revisits the concept first pioneered by Karl Deutsch: 'security communities'. Leading scholars examine security communities in various historical and regional contexts: in places where they exist, where they are emerging, and where they are hardly detectable. Building on constructivist theory, the volume is an important contribution to international relations theory and security studies, attempting to understand the conjunction of transnational forces, state power and international organizations that can produce a security community. |
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Contents
Security communities in theoretical perspective | 3 |
A framework for the study of security communities | 29 |
Studies in security communities | 67 |
Insecurity security and asecurity in the West European nonwar community | 69 |
Seeds of peaceful change the OSCEs security communitybuilding model | 119 |
Caravans in opposite directions society state and the development of community in the Gulf Cooperation Council | 161 |
Collective identity and conflict management in Southeast Asia | 198 |
An emerging security community in South America? | 228 |
The United States and Mexico a pluralistic security community? | 295 |
No fences make good neighbors the development of the USCanadian security community 18711940 | 333 |
A neoKantian perspective democracy interdependence and international organizations in building security communities | 368 |
Conclusions | 395 |
International communities secure or otherwise | 397 |
Studying security communities in theory comparison and history | 413 |
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Australia and the search for a security community in the 1990s | 265 |
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