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The security dilemma : fear, cooperation and trust in world politics / Ken Booth and Nicholas J Wheeler.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Booth, Ken, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Security, International.
- Terrorism.
- World politics--2005-.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 364 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- All human societies have to live with uncertainty, the challenge of which is particularly significant in world politics. Governments face dilemmas of interpretation and response about the motives and intentions of others, such that the accumulation of weapons can be understood by one set of decision-makers as a reasonable act of self-protection, but by others as threatening attack or coercion. From this security dilemma flows the pervasiveness of fear, the fragility of cooperation and the elusiveness of trust. While a clear assessment of the difficulties of cooperation and trust is essential to thinking realistically about security issues, this major new work shows that fatalism serves only to reproduce the fears and dynamics of an already dangerous world and points the way to more promising alternatives.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What is the Security Dilemma? 1
- The quintessential dilemma 1
- Dilemmas within a dilemma 3
- Predicaments and paradoxes 6
- Logics of insecurity 10
- Part I Anarchy
- 1 Uncertainty 21
- John Herz and the invention of the security dilemma 21
- Herbert Butterfield and 'Hobbesian fear' 26
- Interpreting Nazi Germany 30
- John Mearsheimer and the certainty of uncertainty 34
- Uncertainty: past, present and future 38
- 2 Weapons 42
- Weapons as ambiguous symbols 42
- Robert Jervis and the spiral and deterrence models 45
- 'They have nothing to fear from us' 51
- Threat assessment 58
- 3 Fear 62
- 'The dog that did not bark' 62
- 'We must fear them because of who they are' 65
- 'In violence we forget who we are' 70
- 'Fear itself 78
- Part II Society
- 4 Norms 83
- The live-and-let-live logic of anarchy 83
- Security regimes against anarchy 87
- Reconstructing anarchy 93
- Society in anarchy 96
- Rationalism, responsibility and reassurance 104
- 5 Regimes 107
- The Concert of Europe 107
- US-Soviet detente in the 1970s 114
- The nuclear non-proliferation regime 123
- The fragility of international cooperation 131
- 6 Cooperation 137
- Common security versus national defence 137
- Non-provocative defence and security in Europe 141
- The great mitigation: Gorbachev, Reagan and the end of the Cold War 145
- Common security in Europe after the Cold War 158
- Modalities of mitigation 165
- Part III Community
- 7 Reform 173
- Towards an 'organized common peace' 173
- A 'working peace system' 177
- Security as 'undisturbed social life' 182
- A 'laboratory atop a vast graveyard' 190
- Trust in international reform? 197
- 8 Transformation 201
- The end of the states system 202
- The end of war 205
- The end of history 209
- The end of capitalism 212
- The end of patriarchy 216
- The end of government 221
- Trust in structural change? 225
- 9 Trust 228
- The promise of trust 229
- The properties of trust 234
- Elusive trust: the Oslo Accords 245
- Trust and transcendence 251
- Part IV The Future
- 10 The Security Dilemma in the Twenty First Century 261
- John Herz, the security dilemma and survival research 261
- An idea whose time has come 265
- The new age of uncertainty 268
- Logics and the future 276
- 11 Beyond the Security Dilemma 294.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-352) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333587448
- 9780333587447
- 0333587456
- 9780333587454
- OCLC:
- 187300405
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