This book explores the crucial relationship between security and identity in a changing Europe. It covers a series of key policy issues, including NATO enlargement, EU integration, war in the Balkans and Russia's uncertain future. This new agenda is explored through a range of theoretical approaches, from traditional realist to social constructivist and postmodern interpretations. Security and Identity in Europe thus offers an excellent guide to contending theories of international relations and provides innovative insights for students seeking to understand a changing Europe at the beginning of the new millennium.

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LISBETH AGGESTAM is a Research fellow and lectures in international and European politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm. Her most recent publications include the co-authored Europeisk Säkerhetspolitik (European Security Policy, 2000)

ADRIAN HYDE-PRICE is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham. His main publications include The International Politics of East Central Europe (1996) and European Security Beyond the Cold War: Four Scenarios for the Year 2010 (1991).

Inhalt
List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Aggestam & A.Hyde-Price Reflections on Security and Identity in Europe; A.Hyde-Price Re-cognizing Europe: NATO and the Problem of Securing Identities; A.Behnke NATO Enlargement and European Security; M.Smith A Common Foreign and Security Policy? Role Conceptions and the Politics of Identity in the EU; L.Aggestam The European Union and the Global System: International and Internal Security; F.Attina The Societal Security Dilemma; P.Roe Secession and Security: The Politics of Ethno-Cultural Identity; L.Bishai Territoriality and Threat Perceptions: Russian Identities in the Making; C.Wagnsson Between Europe and Asia: Security and Identity in Central Asia; B.Coppieters European Security and the Resurgence of Radical Islam: The Issue of Algeria and the Mahgreb; P.Rich Conclusions: Exploring the New Agenda; A.Hyde-Price & L.Aggestam Index