Beyond the Security Dilemma
Beyond the Security Dilemma

Author: Jason G. Ralph

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1351791907

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This title was first published in 2001. The security dilemma has long been at the heart of the security studies discipline. Moving beyond this, this book attacks the assumptions of the traditional concept and redefines the security dilemma in a way more useful for examining security policy. By exposing the historical and social contingency of the traditional concept, the book argues that the security dilemma is an important though not a permanently operating feature of international politics. An examination of US policy towards the Soviet Union demonstrates the limits of perceiving the Cold War and challenges the role that American security policy has played in the process of constructing a transatlantic security community.

The Security Dilemma
The Security Dilemma

Author: Ken Booth

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0333587448

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This major new contribution to the study of internatioal politics provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the "security dilemma," the phrase used to describe the mistrust and fear which is often thought to be the inevitable consequence of living in a world of sovereign states. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and trust, it considers whether the security dilemma can be mitigated or even transcended analyzing a wide range of historical and contemporary cases

Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma

Author: Paul Roe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1134276893

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Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead. The book includes case studies on: * ethnic violence between Serbs and Croats in the Krajina region of Croatia, August 1990 * ethnic violence between Hungarian and Romanians in the Transylvania region of Romania, March 1990.

Security and Stability in the New Space Age
Security and Stability in the New Space Age

Author: Brad Townsend

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-12

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1000097110

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This book examines the drivers behind great power security competition in space to determine whether realistic strategic alternatives exist to further militarization. Space is an area of increasing economic and military competition. This book offers an analysis of actions and events indicative of a growing security dilemma in space, which is generating an intensifying arms race between the US, China, and Russia. It explores the dynamics behind a potential future war in space and investigates methods of preventing an arms race from an international relations theory and military-strategy standpoint. The book is divided into three parts: the first section offers a broad discussion of the applicability of international relations theory to current conditions in space; the second is a direct application of theory to the space environment to determine whether competition or cooperation is the optimal strategic choice; the third section focuses on testing the hypotheses against reality, by analyzing novel alternatives to three major categories of space systems. The volume concludes with a study of the practical limitations of applying a strategy centered on commercialization as a method of defusing the orbital security dilemma. This book will be of interest to students of space power, strategic studies, and international relations.

Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention
Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention

Author: Barbara F. Walter

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780231116275

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Since the end of the Cold War, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. This volume offers a detailed examination of four recent interventions by the international community.

The Cybersecurity Dilemma
The Cybersecurity Dilemma

Author: Ben Buchanan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0190694807

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Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leaked by Edward Snowden, real-world case studies of cyber operations, and policymaker perspectives to show that intruding into other countries' networks has enormous defensive value as well. Two nations, neither of which seeks to harm the other but neither of which trusts the other, will often find it prudent to launch intrusions. This general problem, in which a nation's means of securing itself threatens the security of others and risks escalating tension, is a bedrock concept in international relations and is called the 'security dilemma'. This book shows not only that the security dilemma applies to cyber operations, but also that the particular characteristics of the digital domain mean that the effects are deeply pronounced. The cybersecurity dilemma is both a vital concern of modern statecraft and a means of accessibly understanding the essential components of cyber operations.

A Theory of Security Strategy for Our Time
A Theory of Security Strategy for Our Time

Author: S. Tang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0230106048

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This book advances a coherent statement of defensive realism as a theory of strategy for our time and adds to our understanding of defensive realism as a grand theory of IR in particular and our understanding of IR in general and contributes to the ongoing debates among major paradigms of international relations.

Alliance Politics
Alliance Politics

Author: Glenn H. Snyder

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780801484285

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Glenn H. Snyder creates a theory of alliances by deductive reasoning about the international system, by integrating ideas from neorealism, coalition formation, bargaining, and game theory, and by empirical generalization from international history. Using cases from 1879 to 1914 to present a theory of alliance formation and management in a multipolar international system, he focuses particularly on three cases--Austria-Germany, Austria-Germany-Russia, and France-Russia--and examines twenty-two episodes of intra-alliance bargaining. Snyder develops the concept of the alliance security dilemma as a vehicle for examining influence relations between allies. He draws parallels between alliance and adversary bargaining and shows how the two intersect. He assesses the role of alliance norms and the interplay of concerts and alliances.His great achievement in Alliance Politics is to have crafted definitive scholarly insights in a way that is useful and interesting not only to the specialist in security affairs but also to any reasonably informed person trying to understand world affairs.

Iran Security Dilemma Behind Paris Climate Change Agreement
Iran Security Dilemma Behind Paris Climate Change Agreement

Author: Majid Asadnabizadeh

Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1618968289

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Climate change is becoming, as well as one of the most complex, the main ecological legal and political problems of the 21st century. Responses to climate change by different countries based on negotiations are the focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid runaway impacts and on addressing the impacts that are already with us. To put it simply, the COP 21 or the Paris Climate Conference led to a new international climate agree- ment, applicable to all countries, aiming to keep global warming below 2˚C, in accordance with the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The 197 “Negotiating Parties” committed to drawing up long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies. This was the first time that a universal agreement was reached in the fight against climate change. The aim is to keep the rise in global average temperature far below 2˚C above pre-industrial rates and to ensure that efforts are made to restrict the increase in temperature to 1.5˚C. The Paris Agreement calls for all parties to update their commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions every five years in order to accomplish this. The Countries agreed to reach as soon as possible a world limit in greenhouse emissions to strike a balance among pollution and their elimination in the second half of the century.