ABSTRACT

This book examines the development of peace research and explores its present challenges, focusing on the contribution made by the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. The authors investigate how peace research relates to security studies and international relations, providing a comprehensive study of conceptual innovations and a discussion of secu

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Part I Peace research and IR theory

chapter 2|12 pages

Peace Research and International Relations in Scandinavia

From enduring rivalry to stable peace?

chapter 3|13 pages

Peace research between idealism and realism

Fragments of a Finnish debate

chapter 4|13 pages

‘The Cold War is what we make of it’

When peace research meets constructivism in International Relations

chapter 5|14 pages

Peace and security: two concepts and their relationship OLE WÆVER

Two concepts and their relationship

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Part II Globalisation and contemporary security studies

chapter 6|12 pages

Wars and the un-making of states

Taking Tilly seriously in the contemporary world

chapter 9|11 pages

Globalisation and societal insecurity

The securitisation of terrorism and competing strategies for global governance

chapter 10|11 pages

From Bentham to Bush

Surveillance, security and the quest for visibility

chapter 11|13 pages

The subversion of borders

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Part III Security analysis in the larger European context

chapter 12|11 pages

A Deutschian security community?

Nordic peace reframed

chapter 13|13 pages

Initiating a security community

General theory, history and prospects for Baltic–Russian relations

chapter 14|13 pages

The EU as a foreign policy actor

The limitations of territorial sovereignty

chapter 15|13 pages

Fears into fences

The isolationist pitfall of European federalism

chapter 16|12 pages

The new NATO

Europe’s continued security crisis

chapter 17|12 pages

Securitising European integration

Turkey and the EU

chapter 18|12 pages

Algeria

Securitisation of state/regime, nation and Islam