Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.

Oskanien, K.

Fear, Weakness and Power in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. - 1st ed. - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. ©2013. - 1 online resource (285 pages) - New Security Challenges Series . - New Security Challenges Series .

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Cover -- Contents -- List fo Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Geopolitical Map of the Caucasus -- Timeline of Events in the South Caucasus (1988-2013) -- A Note on Transliteration and Toponymy -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Interviewees -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Amity and Enmity in Its Regional Context -- 3 State Incoherence as Weakness, Instability and Failure -- 4 Great Powers and Their Regional Entanglements -- 5 A Macro-view of the Southern Caucasus -- 6 Discourses of Conflict in the Southern Caucasus -- 7 State Incoherence in Southern Caucasia -- 8 The Great Powers and the Southern Caucasus -- 9 The South Caucasus Regional Insecurity Complex -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book provides a multi-level analysis of international security in the South Caucasus. Using an expanded and adapted version of Regional Security Complex Theory, it studies both material conditions and discourses of insecurity in its assessment of the region's possible transition towards a more peaceable future.

9781137026767


1988-2013


Sicherheitspolitik
Konflikt
Internationale Politik


Kaukasusländer

World politics.


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