A Threat Against Europe?

A Threat Against Europe?
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Publisher : ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9789054879299
ISBN-13 : 9054879297
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Book Synopsis A Threat Against Europe? by : J. Peter Burgess

Download or read book A Threat Against Europe? written by J. Peter Burgess and published by ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of security has traditionally referred to the status of sovereign states in a closed international system. In this system the state is assumed to be both the object of security and the primary provider of security. Threats to the state's security are understood as threats to its political autonomy in the system. The major international institutions that emerged after the Second World War were built around this idea. When the founders of the United Nations spoke of collective security, they were referring primarily to state security and to the coordinated system that would be necessary in order to avoid the 'scourge of war'. But today, a wide range of security threats, both new and traditional, confront Europe, or at least as some would say.


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