Book Description
This book tackles the question: when international security institutions face a legitimacy crisis, why are some replaced while others endure?
Author : Patrick Cottrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107121116
This book tackles the question: when international security institutions face a legitimacy crisis, why are some replaced while others endure?
Author : M. Patrick Cottrell
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2016
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : 9781107548411
"International institutions constitute the basis of global order. As they struggle to accommodate shifts in power and emerging threats, their legitimacy - their political authority and right to govern - often comes under fire, at times fuelling perceptions of crisis. Yet scholars seldom ask why some institutions are replaced while others are not. Blending theory with history, M. Patrick Cottrell examines some of the world's landmark security institutions, arguing that the possibility of replacement hinges on the sources of institutional legitimacy and the nature and timing of the challenges to it. The analysis not only reveals different pathways to replacement, but also offers a window into the future, including a potential dark side of too much legitimacy. Indeed, as global society becomes ever more dynamic, the fault-lines of conflict with the most significant implications for order will not occur over territory, but rather the legitimacy of international institutions" ...
Author : Dimitris Bourantonis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134059531
Featuring an outstanding international line-up of contributors, this edited volume offers a timely examination of two of the most crucial and controversial issues in international relations, namely the evolution of particular concepts of multilateralism and whether international security institutions are the objects of state choice and/or consequential. The book combines a variety of theoretical perspectives with detailed empirical examples. The subjects covered include: the development and contemporary application of the concept of multilateralism American foreign and security policy in the post 9/11 era (unilateralism vs. multilateralism) humanitarian intervention and liberal peace case studies of a variety of security institutions including the EU, UN and NATO a broad selection of geographical examples from North America, Europe and Asia This book is a significant contribution to the contemporary debate on multilateralism and the effects of multilateral security institutions and will be of great interest to scholars of international relations and security studies.
Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139480766
International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, 'new agenda' or critical.
Author : Hitoshi Nasu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107102782
Explores the tensions that arise when institutions address contemporary security threats.
Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521872618
The first intellectual history of International Security Studies since 1945, providing an unparalleled survey for students and scholars.
Author : Hilton L. Root
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262019701
An innovative view of the changing geopolitical landscape that draws on the science of complex adaptive systems to understand changes in global interaction. Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landscape, in which hierarchical structures are giving way to systems of networked interdependence, changing every facet of global interaction. Accordingly, policymakers will need a new way to understand the process of change. Root suggests that the science of complex systems offers an analytical framework to explain the unforeseen development failures, governance trends, and alliance shifts in today's global political economy. Root examines both the networked systems that make up modern states and the larger, interdependent landscapes they share. Using systems analysis—in which institutional change and economic development are understood as self-organizing complexities—he offers an alternative view of institutional resilience and persistence. From this perspective, Root considers the divergence of East and West; the emergence of the European state, its contrast with the rise of China, and the network properties of their respective innovation systems; the trajectory of democracy in developing regions; and the systemic impact of China on the liberal world order. Complexity science, Root argues, will not explain historical change processes with algorithmic precision, but it may offer explanations that match the messy richness of those processes.
Author : Peter Hough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317811755
This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies. In addition to presenting the major theoretical perspectives, the book examines a range of important and controversial topics in modern debates, covering both traditional military and non-military security issues, such as proliferation, humanitarian intervention, food security and environmental security. Unlike most standard textbooks, the volume also offers a wide range of case studies – including chapters on the USA, China, the Middle East, Russia, Africa, the Arctic, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America – providing detailed analyses of important global security issues. The 34 chapters contain pedagogical features such as textboxes, summary points and recommended further reading and are divided into five thematic sections: Conceptual and Theoretical Military Security Non-Military Security Institutions and Security Case Studies This textbook will be essential reading for all students of security studies and highly recommended for students of critical security studies, human security, peace and conflict studies, foreign policy and International Relations in general.
Author : Helga Haftendorn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191583391
International institutions play important roles in political-military issues as well as in economic and environmental affairs. Indeed, it is impossible to understand efforts to resolve regional and local conflicts, or the form and pace of alliance formation and expansion, without paying attention to security institutions. Imperfect Unions discusses a wide variety of security institutions, including NATO, the Western European Union, United Nations peacekeeping, the ASEAB Regional Forum, and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. It describes changes in security institutions, documents the effects of such institutions on national policies, and explores the conditions that affect the patterns of co-operation and discord that ensue. The book helps to improve our understanding of recent developments in international relations such as NATO enlargement and the regionalization of peacekeeping. In theoretical terms, it shows how institutionalist approaches, such as those represented in this volume, can enrich the important field of security studies.
Author : Patrick Cottrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2018
Category : World politics
ISBN : 9781138930889
This book explores the enduring relevance of the League of Nations for the present and future of global politics.