Imperfect unions : security institutions over time and space
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Imperfect unions : security institutions over time and space
Oxford University Press, 1999
- : hbk.
- : pbk.
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Bibliography: p. [339]-370
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
International institutions play important roles in political-military issues as well as in economic and environmental affairs. Indeed, it is impossible to understand efforts to resolve regional and local conflicts, or the form and pace of alliance formation and expansion, without paying attention to security institutions.
Imperfect Unions discusses a wide variety of security institutions, including NATO, the Western European Union, United Nations peacekeeping, the ASEAB Regional Forum, and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. It describes changes in security institutions, documents the effects of such institutions on national policies, and explores the conditions that affect the patterns of co-operation and discord that ensue.
The book helps to improve our understanding of recent developments in international relations such as NATO enlargement and the regionalization of peacekeeping. In theoretical terms, it shows how institutionalist approaches, such as those represented in this volume, can enrich the important field of security studies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- FUNCTION AND FORM OF SECURITY INSTITUTIONS.
- 1. Risk, Threat and Security Institutions
- 2. The Concert of Europe and Security Management in the Nineteenth Century
- 3. Function and Form of a European Security and Defence Identity
- EFFECTS OF SECURITY INSTITUTIONS.
- 4. Alliances as Instruments of Intra-Allied Control
- 5. Alliance Cohesion and Peaceful Change in NATO
- 6. The 'Quad': Unexpected Effects of an Obscure Institution
- 7. How Institutions Matter: The OSCE and German Foreign Policy
- CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN SECURITY INSTITUTIONS.
- 8. Spontaneous Institutions: The Dynamics of International Peacekeeping
- 9. US Non-Proliferation Campaigns and the Impact of Institutional Change
- 10. The Myth of ASEAN Way: Explaining the Evolution of the ASEAN Regional Forum
- Conclusion
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