Extending the European Security Community: Constructing Peace in the Balkans (Library of European Studies) - Hardcover

Kavalski, Emilian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845114973 ISBN 13: 9781845114978

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2008

Synopsis

The region of the Balkans has become one of the emblematic features of the post-Cold War geography of international relations. Understanding the extension of the European zone of peace to the Balkans is at the heart of this pioneering work into the post-Cold War socialisation of the region. How is peace (i.e. a security-community-order) initiated in the Balkans? Who are the dominant agents of such peace-promotion? What processes suggest the initiation of (lasting) peace in the Balkans? Under what circumstances do regional states comply with international standards?
Looking at the order-promoting processes of both the EU and Nato, Emilian Kavalski offers us the first detailed and theoretically-informed comparative analysis of the role played by external actors in the Balkan region as a whole. In doing so he provides us with an insight into the processes of peace-promotion in general, and the patterns of security-community-building in the Balkans in particular.

About this title

About the Author:

Emilian Kavalski completed his PhD at Loughborough University and is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Review:

""a significant empirical contribution to theory building and an important case study in the broader literature on the establishment of security communities...this book will take a legitimate and deserved place alongside other texts treating the political and security development of the Balkans and, potentially, within the wider realm of security studies."" -- Dr. Maurice Fitzgerald, Lecturer in Modern European and International Studies, Loughborough University

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845114973
• ISBN 13: 9781845114978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272