The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?: Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises. - Couverture souple

Guzzini, Stefano

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107676509 ISBN 13 : 9781107676503

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The end of the Cold War demonstrated the historical possibility of peaceful change and seemingly showed the superiority of non-realist approaches in International Relations. Yet in the post-Cold War period many European countries have experienced a resurgence of a distinctively realist tradition: geopolitics. Geopolitics is an approach which emphasizes the relationship between politics and power on the one hand; and territory, location and environment on the other. This comparative study shows how the revival of geopolitics came not despite, but because of, the end of the Cold War. Disoriented in their self-understandings and conception of external roles by the events of 1989, many European foreign policy actors used the determinism of geopolitical thought to find their place in world politics quickly. The book develops a constructivist methodology to study causal mechanisms and its comparative approach allows for a broad assessment of some of the fundamental dynamics of European security.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stefano Guzzini is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen and Professor of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107676509
• ISBN 13: 9781107676503
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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