Security strategies, power disparity and identity : the Baltic Sea region / edited by Olav F. Knudsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knudsen, Olav.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Baltic Sea Region.

National security.

International relations.

Conflict management--Baltic Sea Region.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is power and how is it effective? This volume responds to these questions in terms of regional international relations with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea region, an area still charged with a residue of Cold War conflict and power disparity, in a setting of new cooperative ventures.

Contents:

An overall perspective on regional power strategies / Olav F. Knudsen

Power disparities and the avoidance of confrontation / Olav F. Knudsen

Events and ideas in the region : an overview 1980s-2000s / Olav F. Knudsen and Christopher Jones

The conditionality of security integration : identity and alignment choices in Finland and Sweden / Regina Karp

Power disparity and epistemic communities : the Paldiski case / Michael Karlsson

Threat images and socialization : Estonia and Russia in the new millennium / Erik Noreen

Power disparity in the digital age / Johan Eriksson

Generalizing about security strategies in the Baltic Sea region / Stephen G. Walker

Looking to the future : security strategies, identity and power disparity / Olav F. Knudsen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-214) and index.

ISBN:

1-351-14950-4

1-281-10387-X

9786611103873

0-7546-8345-1

OCLC:

476278271