ABSTRACT
Source: Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett (eds), Security Communities (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998), pp. 37-48.
Adler and Barnett set out to identify the key qualities of security communities and their roles in expressing ‘dependable expectations of peaceful change’ among states and societies. They begin by examining the conceptual foundations of security communities, and discern three stages or ‘tiers’ in the formation of such communities. First, there are a number of precipitating conditions; second, there are interactions between the structure of a region and its social processes; finally, there is the formation of mutual trust and collective identity formation.
