Regions and powers : the structure of international security /

Main Author: Buzan, Barry.
Other Authors: Wæver, Ole,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 91
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Table of Contents:
  • Theories and histories about the structure of contemporary international security
  • Levels : distinguishing the regional from the global
  • Security complexes : a theory of regional security
  • South Asia : inching towards internal and external transformation
  • Northeast and Southeast Asian RSCs during the Cold War
  • The 1990s and beyond : an emergent EastAsian complex
  • The Middle East : a perennial conflict formation
  • Sub-Saharan Africa : security dynamics in a setting of weak and failed states
  • Conclusions
  • North America : the sole superpower and its surroundings
  • South America : an under-conflictual anomaly?
  • EU-Europe : the European Union and its 'near abroad'
  • The Balkans and Turkey
  • The post-Soviet space : a regional security complex
  • Conclusions : scenarios for the European supercomplex
  • Regions and powers : summing up and looking ahead
  • Reflections on conceptualising international security.