A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy

ISBN-13: 9780333719268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 316 str.

Gulnur Aybet

Opis

A European Security Architecture after the Cold War provides a critical account of the re-projection and redefinition of Western values and security institutions in the post-Coldwar era. This transformation is explored in three stages. The first stage covers the period 1990-91 and explains the preservation of a western security community' inherited from the Cold War, through a process of institutional reconstruction largely carried out on paper. The second stage from 1991 to 1992 sees the incorporation of a purpose' for these institutions as a framework for the implementation of collective security. The third stage explores the emerging questions of legitimacy surrounding the new tasks of these institutions as they become embroiled in the war in the former Yugoslavia. The precedents of legitimate intervention in upholding democracy, free markets and human rights in the post-coldwar era are examined from the perspectives of international law and Gramscian derived concepts of legitimacy, focusing on the acceptance of military power by civil society, and how intervention in these terms becomes a 'cultural practice'.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction The Legitimacy of a 'Western Security Community' Redefining European Security Institutions after the Cold War: The Preliminary Stage 1990-1991 From Collective Defence to Collective Security: The Second Stage 1991-1992 The Legitimacy of a Collective Security System: The Third Stage Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

GÜLNUR AYBET is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara. She was previously Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Nottingham, and also worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the North Atlantic Assembly. She is the author of The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation, 1945-91.