Limiting institutions? : The challenge of Eurasian security governance / edited by James Sperling, Sean Kay, and S. Victor Papacosma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kay, Sean, Editor.

Papacosma, Victor, Editor.

Sperling, James, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Former Soviet republics.

National security.

Geopolitics--Former Soviet republics.

Geopolitics.

Former Soviet republics--Politics and government.

Former Soviet republics.

Europe--Foreign relations--Former Soviet republics.

Europe.

Former Soviet republics--Foreign relations--Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2003.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Eurasian security governance has received increasing attention since 1989. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the institution that best served the security interests of the West in its competition with the Soviet Union, is now relatively ill-equipped resolve the threats emanating from Eurasia to the Atlantic system of security governance. This book investigates the important role played by identity politics in the shaping of the Eurasian security environment. It investigates both the state in post-Soviet Eurasia as the primary site of institutionalisation and the state's concerted international action in the sphere of security. This investigation requires a major caveat: state-centric approaches to security impose analytical costs by obscuring substate and transnational actors and processes. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon marked the maturation of what had been described as the 'new terrorism'. Jervis has argued that the western system of security governance produced a security community that was contingent upon five necessary and sufficient conditions. The United States has made an effort to integrate China, Russia into the Atlantic security system via the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. The Black Sea Economic Cooperation has become engaged in disseminating security concerns in fields such as environment, energy and economy. If the end of the Cold War left America triumphant, Russia's new geopolitical hand seemed a terrible demotion. Successfully rebalancing the West and building a collaborative system with Russia, China, Europe and America probably requires more wisdom and skill from the world's leaders.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

List of contributors

Preface and acknowledgements

List of abbreviations and acronyms

Part I Introduction

1 Eurasian security governance

Part II Security threats

2 Contested national identities and weak state structures in Eurasia

3 Ethnic conflict and Eurasian security

4 Eurasia and the transnational terrorist threats to Atlantic security

5 Transboundary water management and security in Central Asia

6 The geopolitics of Central Asian energy

Part III Institutions of security governance

7 Geopolitical constraints and institutional innovation

8 The OSCE role in Eurasian security

9 Paths to peace for NATO's partnerships in Eurasia

10 Russia, the CIS and Eurasian interconnections

11 The Black Sea Economic Cooperation

12 The EU and Eurasia

Part IV Conclusion

13 Reflections on Eurasian security

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-3747-X

OCLC:

1153272962

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access