Structure, Order, and Disorder in World Politics: Papers Presented at the Summer Course 1998 on International Security (Conflicts, Options, Strategies in a Threatened World)

Ulrike Schumacher (ed)

ISBN 10: 3631347901 / ISBN 13: 9783631347904

Published by Peter Lang GmbH, 1999

About this Item

Essays from annual conference on national security questions held at Kiel University, Germany ten years after collapse of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. 'New World Order' of humanitarian intervention upon us in wake of Balkans conflict. 9/11, Iraq Mark 2, and Afghanistan still to come. Contributors include Prof Colin Gray (UK), Christopher Hughes (US), Simon Duke (The Netherlands), Prof Erich Weede (Germany) etc. 211 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structure, Order, and Disorder in World Politics: Papers Presented at the Summer Course 1998 on International Security (Conflicts, Options, Strategies in a Threatened World)
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631347901
• ISBN 13: 9783631347904
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Almost a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet Union, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the international community faces challenges for which there are neither theoretical explanations nor practical solutions at hand. Structures and frameworks of order are elements that are relevant for domestic politics and international relations. Stability among states will only be possible if the foreign policies of states and groups of states are shaped in accordance with such frameworks. After World War II, it was the United States that conducted this kind of international politics of order and thereby created the international post-war security architecture. The Euro-American relationship will be one of the most important frameworks of order and peace in the future. Other frames, such as the European Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), a revived WEU, a common European defense identity, or cooperations such as the one in the Baltic Sea region, can at best be parts of or additions to an international framework of order, which, in turn, is based on the politics of stability and the principle of self-determination.

About the Author

The Editor: Ulrike Schumacher holds a tenured position as Academic Director at the University of Kiel and is Acting Director of the Institute of Security Studies.