Liebich Andre, Ethnic Minorities and Long-Term Implications of EU Enlargement

Mediterranean Quarterly, Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 2001, pp. 101-118 (Article) Published by Duke University Press The disintegration of Yugoslavia and the subsequent carnage in Bosnia and Kosovo—along with a plethora of social, economic, and other difficulties— have left the distinct impression that southeastern Europe, more commonly known as the Balkan Peninsula, has lost none of its penchant for turbulence. Scholars, journalists, and practi...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 - 272 p. In this comprehensively revised and updated new edition of the highly-acclaimed text, John Dumbrell assesses how and why the Anglo-American special relationship found a new lease of life under Blair as Britain repeatedly "chose" the US in its evolving foreign policy orientation rather than Europe.There was, he argues, no inevitability about this response to the post 9/11 international situation and its long-term...

Gray, Colin S. The Implications of Preemptive and Preventive War Doctrines: A Reconsideration (Strategic Studies Institute 2007 - 70 p. ) Preemption and prevention are different concepts. To preempt is to attempt to strike first against an enemy who is in the process of preparing, or is actually launching, an attack against you. Preemption is not controversial. The decision for war has been taken out of your hands. Prevention, however, is a dec...

Routledge, 2009. 233 p. Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond savage globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. The book provides a stronger basis for understanding the causes of conflict and...

Routledge, 2000. 373 p. During the twentieth century, formal links between governments have become much more intense, reflecting a growing emphasis on internationalism and the world community. There has been a multi-layered transformation in the relations between states, at both a social and a diplomatic level. This has resulted in, amongst other changes, an increase in the number of international organisations and collective security arrangemen...

Introduction Russia’s Domestic Situation Russia’s Economy and Russian Resources for Defense Russian Foreign Policy Russia’s Defense and Security Policy Today’s Russia: Implications for the United States Bibliography

Palgrave, 2002. 292 p. West is a concept widely used in international relations, but we rarely reflect on what we mean by the term. Conceptions of and what the West is vary widely. This book examines conceptions of the West drawn from writers from diverse historical and intellectual contexts, revealing both interesting parallels and points of divergence. It also reflects on implications of these different perceptions of how we understand the rol...

Introduction; S.Wolff& R.G.Whitman PART I: THE STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY European Union Normative Power in the European Neighbourhood Policy; I.Manners Identity Construction through the ENP; B.Tonra The ENP, Security and Democracy in the Context of the European Security Strategy; S.Biscop The ENP's Strategic Conception and Design: Overstretching the Enlargement Template? ; C.Gebhard PART II: MAKING SENSE OF THE EUROPEAN NEIG...

Cambridge University Press, 2004. 414 p. An important and timely contribution to international relations and political science, this is the first general analysis of deterrence since the end of the Cold War. Using non-cooperative game theory, the authors offer a new approach to deterrence Perfect Deterrence Theory which they apply to unilateral and mutual direct deterrence relationships, and to extended-deterrence relationships supported by depl...

Ntroduction: Boundary making by the European Union Jan Zielonka Does Europe need a frontier? : from territorial to redistributive community Charles S. Maier Fixed borders or moving borderlands? : a new type of border for a new type of entity Pierre Hassner Facing the ‘desert of Tartars’: the Eastern border of Europe Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Where does Europe end? : dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion William Wallace The geopolitica...