Research Catalog

Title

Security policy reorientation in peripheral Europe : a comparative-perspective approach / Kjell Engelbrekt.

Author

Engelbrekt, Kjell.

Publication

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002.

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Details

Description

xii, 300 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• National security > Scandinavia
• National security > Balkan Peninsula
• States, Small
• Middle powers
• Europe > Military policy
• Europe > History > 1989-

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The European Security Order and its Periphery -- The Curtain is Up -- Zwischeneuropa and its Flanks -- Four National Security Legacies -- Conceptualizations of Security -- Strands of Criticism -- Three Feasible Starting Points -- The Perspectivist Argument -- Perspectives in International Relations -- Security Policy: A Three-Fold Definition -- The Multiple Comparative Method -- The Logic of Anarchy -- Balance of Threat Theory -- Variables, Hypotheses and Sources -- Varieties of Westward Reorientation -- Sweden/Finland -- Greece/Bulgaria -- Results -- Socializing Peripheral Europe -- Norms and International Institutions -- International Society and its Rules -- Studying Security Policy Prescriptions -- Institutions that Transmit Prescriptions -- Sources and Stages of Research -- Classical or Postmodern Security Architecture? -- The Collapse of the USSR -- The Violent Breakup of Yugoslavia -- Evaluation -- Circuli Virtuosi et Vitiosi? -- Affluence versus Scarcity -- Extrapolating on 'Grand Theory' and Poll Data -- Four Symptoms -- Nordics versus Balkans -- Interpretive Frame and Data -- Sweden: High Affluence Values? -- Finland: Moderate Affluence Values? -- Greece: Moderate Scarcity Values? -- Bulgaria: High Scarcity Values? -- Interpretation -- Concluding Reflections -- Remarks on Methodology and Design -- Epistemology: Alternative Readings -- The Emerging Order Viewed from the Periphery -- A European Core? A Non-Perspectivist Epilogue.

ISBN

0754630684 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002066585

OCLC

49712169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library