Europe's New Security Challenges

✍ Scribed by Heinz Gärtner (editor); Adrian Hyde-Price (editor); Erich Reiter (editor)

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A central point of controversy among both academics and policymakers is the nature and significance of security in the post–Cold War world. Engaging that discussion, this original collection explores the new security challenges facing Europe. The authors assess the relevance and usefulness of various actors and various approaches for tackling those security challenges. Seeking to avoid dichotomous thinking, their nuanced efforts probe the areas of ambiguity and complexity between war and peace, conflict and cooperation, "hard" and "soft" security, and state and society.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
PART 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
2 "Beware the Jabberwock!": Security Studies in the Twenty-First Century
3 Complexity Theory and European Security: What Capacity to Describe, Prescribe, or Forecast?
4 Modern Technology and the Future of the Soldier
5 New Conflicts: Risks and Challenges
PART 2: EUROPEAN SECURITY
6 Europe's Changing Security Role
7 European Security, the Transatlantic Link, and Crisis Management
8 The Compatibility of Security Organizations and Policies in Europe
9 Strengthening Europe's Security Architecture: Where Do We Stand? Where Should We Go?
PART 3: THE OSCE
10 An Evaluation of the OSCE's Role in Conflict Management
11 Targeting Its Constituency: Political Will, Public Relations, and the OSCE
12 The High Commissioner on National Minorities: His Work, Effectiveness, and Recommendations to Strengthen the HCNM as an Institution
PART 4: REGIONAL SECURITY
13 The Challenge of Collective Action: Security Management in European and Regional Contexts
14 Arms Control as a Spatial Practice: Challenges in the Baltic Region
15 New Global Politics: Reflections on the Return of Geopolitics to Central Asia and Its Effect on European Security
16 Peace Operations: An Assessment
PART 5: THE ROLE OF MAJOR POWERS
17 Great Powers and Global Insecurity
18 Farewell to Russia: The Decay of a Superpower
19 China: Global or Regional Player? Great Power, Partner, or Chaotic Power?
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
The Contributors
Index
About the Book