Security strategies, power disparity and identity [electronic resource] : the Baltic Sea region / edited by Olav F. Knudsen.

Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (239 p.)

Subjects:

National security -- Baltic Sea Region.
International relations.
Conflict management -- Baltic Sea Region.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

What is power and how is it effective? This volume responds to these questions in terms of regional international relations with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea region, an area still charged with a residue of Cold War conflict and power disparity, in a setting of new cooperative ventures.

Contents:

An overall perspective on regional power strategies / Olav F. Knudsen
Power disparities and the avoidance of confrontation / Olav F. Knudsen
Events and ideas in the region : an overview 1980s-2000s / Olav F. Knudsen and Christopher Jones
The conditionality of security integration : identity and alignment choices in Finland and Sweden / Regina Karp
Power disparity and epistemic communities : the Paldiski case / Michael Karlsson
Threat images and socialization : Estonia and Russia in the new millennium / Erik Noreen
Power disparity in the digital age / Johan Eriksson
Generalizing about security strategies in the Baltic Sea region / Stephen G. Walker
Looking to the future : security strategies, identity and power disparity / Olav F. Knudsen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-214) and index.

Contributor:

Knudsen, Olav.

ISBN:

1-351-14950-4
1-281-10387-X
9786611103873
0-7546-8345-1

OCLC:

476278271

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