1st Edition

Security Strategies, Power Disparity and Identity The Baltic Sea Region

Edited By Olav F. Knudsen Copyright 2007
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

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. Each contributor examines the region from a different angle and discusses how its actors coped with the... Read more
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; References; Index.

Biography

Olav F. Knudsen