Asserting that regional patterns of security are increasingly important in international politics, this study presents a detailed account of relations between global powers. It emphasizes their relationship with the regional security complexes which make up the contemporary international system. The book analyzes Africa, the Balkans, Eastern and Western Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, North America and South Asia, tracing the history of each region through the present.
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"Regions and Powers is a work that demands attention from both general IR theorists and regional specialists." Spencer D. Bakich, Virginia Quarterly Review
"The authors' earlier works in security studies are brought together and developed into an innovative and coherent regional security complex theory. The empirical sweep of the study is monumental. This book is a major re-think of the problem of security in the post-Cold War world and successfully challenges conventional and competing approaches." Kalevi J. Holsti, University of British Columbia
"This is the long-awaited follow-on book to Buzan's and Waever's initial statement of securitization.Regions and Powers develops a conceptual apparatus for an interpretation of all of the world's different regional security complexes. The book is heroic in its ambition and Herculean in its execution. A landmark study that displays a rare combination of cutting-edge theoretical sophistication with an insatiable appetite for data." Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
"The domain of world society has for some time been a neglected dimension in English School theorizing. Barry Buzanas book has not only filled this gap, it has radically reconfigured the relationship between international system, international society and world society. The result is a formidable work of grand theory. At last we have a work in the English School which is analytically rigorous enough to meet the high standards set by the best recent American IR theory while at the same time remaining faithful to the richness of the original sociological institutionalism." Tim Dunne, University of Exeter
"This is a book tht deserves to be widely read, and it is liekly to serve as an inspiration for many subsequent studies of regions." Political Science Quarterly
"The authors' earlier works in security studies are brought together and developed into an innovative and coherent regional security complex theory. The empirical sweep of the study is monumental. This book is a major re-think of the problem of security in the post-Cold War world and successfully challenges conventional and competing approaches." Kalevi J. Holsti, University of British Columbia
"This is the long-awaited follow-on book to Buzan's and Waever's initial statement of securitization.Regions and Powers develops a conceptual apparatus for an interpretation of all of the world's different regional security complexes. The book is heroic in its ambition and Herculean in its execution. A landmark study that displays a rare combination of cutting-edge theoretical sophistication with an insatiable appetite for data." Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
"The domain of world society has for some time been a neglected dimension in English School theorizing. Barry Buzanas book has not only filled this gap, it has radically reconfigured the relationship between international system, international society and world society. The result is a formidable work of grand theory. At last we have a work in the English School which is analytically rigorous enough to meet the high standards set by the best recent American IR theory while at the same time remaining faithful to the richness of the original sociological institutionalism." Tim Dunne, University of Exeter
"This is a book tht deserves to be widely read, and it is liekly to serve as an inspiration for many subsequent studies of regions." Political Science Quarterly
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Buzan and Waever argue that regional patterns of security are increasingly important in international politics. They present a detailed account of relations between global powers, but emphasise their relations with the regional security complexes which make up the contemporary international system. They analyse Africa, the Balkans, Eastern and Wester Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, North America and South Asia, tracing the history of each region, as well as its present characteristics. This book thus offers a, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date picture of world security after the Cold War.
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This review is from: Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) (Paperback)
In the great debate with Huntingtons `civilizations' thesis this book argues that the world is divided into `regions' and powers' With a sole superpower, the U.S and a series of Great powers(the EU, Japan, China etc...) and a number of regional powers(India etc...). This book explains that rather then simply seeing the world as a clash of civilization, rather each region can be carved up and explained and conflicts understood within the regional framework. While this approach works nice on paper, it also contains a few obvious problems. While it is true that most relations in Asia are regional and certainly don't extend into Africa and that the world has lost its bi-polar nature since the fall of the Soviets, it is also true that certain transnational movements such as Islam, do in fact extend beyond region. For instance, this book sees Afghanistan as an `insulator' keeping Asia(India) away from the middle east. So for this book the Pakistan-India conflict is simply a regional outgrowth of two regional powers. Realism would seem to agree. Yet the truth is that Pakistan fanned the flames of Islamic fundamentalism all across Asia and Turkey is once again dabbling in pan-Turkism in central Asia, even stretching to the Uigurs of China. These phenomenon's, not to mention the presence of Arab volunteers in Chechnya and Bosnia, seem to contract the thesis here. Nevertheless this book is a wonderful framework where regions such as Africa(sub Saharan) and South America(an underconflictual region) and be seen to have transformed themselves in the post-cold war world. A book of interest to anyone trying to understand international relations in the coming century.Seth J. Frantzman
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Regions and Powers, Transnationality and Non-state actors excluded,
This review is from: Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) (Paperback)
Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security complements a project that has begun with Barry Buzan's People, States and Fear and was later thoroughly reformulated with the help of Ole Waever in Security: New Framework for Analysis.We are talking about the regional security complex theory (RSCT). This theory postulates that security of an actor cannot be analysed without taking in account the security milieu of that actor - in fact other actors. This leads to the importance of regional level of analysis. Another important feature is the process of securitization, which is in fact a defining threshold for threats. Aim of this book is to deepen the theory and to apply it on the empirical background of different regions. - RSCT has universalistic ambitions and therefore neglects difference between actors, mainly states. Third world states percept threats quite often differently than modern states (see Ayoob). - eventhough the theory conceptualy encompasses non-state actors, it is in fact heavily statecentric. - RSCT cannot conceptualize network actors, because of their transnational or deterritorialized character. + RSCT is useful medium-range theory when it comes to modern states. If you are particulary interested in the regional level of analysis, then this is your natural choice. Even that Buzan and Waever cannot fulfil what they were aiming to - the universal framework for conceptualization of security, it still can be useful. Petr Zelinka, Journal of Security Issues
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This book outlines a theory which in the post-Cold War era builds upon Waltz's neorealism theory of International Relations. Using this theory as a lens to examine the world of International Relations will aid in one's understanding of the world we live in today. This is required reading for any one taking political science or IR at the graduate level.A great book!!!
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Almost nobody disputes that the end of the Cold War had a profound impact on the whole pattern of international security but, more than a decade after the transition, the character of the post-Cold War security order still remains hotly contested. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
level security dynamics, regional security dynamics, global level powers, securitising actors, security constellation, core subcomplexes, security complex theory, regional level dynamics, security interdependence, conflict formation, insulator state, interregional level, sociopolitical cohesion, interregional dynamics, regional security complexes, empirical sovereignty, regionalist perspective, global polarity, securitisation processes, security interaction, global international system, regional security regime, external transformation, polarity theory, interaction capacity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Middle East, South Asia, Soviet Union, South America, North America, Central Asia, South Africa, Central America, Latin America, Southern Cone, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, Southern Africa, Western Europe, Central Europe, Central Africa, Ottoman Empire, South Korea, Strategic Survey, West Africa, Andean North, Second Gulf War, Gulf Arab New!
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Almost nobody disputes that the end of the Cold War had a profound impact on the whole pattern of international security but, more than a decade after the transition, the character of the post-Cold War security order still remains hotly contested. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
level security dynamics, regional security dynamics, global level powers, securitising actors, security constellation, core subcomplexes, security complex theory, regional level dynamics, security interdependence, conflict formation, insulator state, interregional level, sociopolitical cohesion, interregional dynamics, regional security complexes, empirical sovereignty, regionalist perspective, global polarity, securitisation processes, security interaction, global international system, regional security regime, external transformation, polarity theory, interaction capacity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Middle East, South Asia, Soviet Union, South America, North America, Central Asia, South Africa, Central America, Latin America, Southern Cone, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, Southern Africa, Western Europe, Central Europe, Central Africa, Ottoman Empire, South Korea, Strategic Survey, West Africa, Andean North, Second Gulf War, Gulf Arab New!
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