Regional security practices and Russian–Atlantic relations

Pouliot, Vincent

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“…8 Others claim that the Europeans and the North Americans never indeed accepted the collapse of the former Soviet Union and its replacement by the Russian Federation as the absolute disappearance of the external geostrategic threat to NATO's allies. 9 For example, based on constructivist assumptions, Pouliot explains the prolonged tension between NATO and Russia after the end of the Cold War and into the late 1990s. This group of scholars contends tensions became particularly acute as President Vladimir Putin's ascendance as a powerful autocrat materialized and expanded in Russia.…”

Section: Paradoxical Endurancementioning

confidence: 99%

NATO’s Internal Deepening, Endurance, and Expansion: Economic Incentives and Gains as an Explanatory Complement to Realist Alliance Theory

Esitashvili¹,

Martín

2020

JSS

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NATO endured the end of the Cold War in 1991, its members deepened their commitment to the alliance, and it expanded considerably. Its survival fundamentally challenges the logic of realism, prompting two essential questions. First, is it possible to salvage realist alliance theory in the face of its apparent failure to explain NATO's continuing operation? This article contends that realism is repairable and salvageable in this context. Second, if realism is still a viable argument about NATO's endurance, how can it explain it? This article adds a complementary and still-missing explanation to realism based on economic incentives and gains. It argues that economic considerations such as the high cost and complexity to research, design, develop, and produce cost-efficiently modern, sophisticated, and technically complex weapon systems represented a substantial financial undertaking for NATO's great power members. The unparalleled economic burden prompted allies to pull resources together instead of seeking security unilaterally or through other alignment alternatives. The economic imperative of the modern defense industry is an essential and overlooked variable among realist and non-realist perspectives. Economic incentives affected in unprecedented ways the strategic calculus of NATO's great powers and, thus, causes their increased commitment to the alliance, its endurance, and expansion.

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Section: Paradoxical Endurancementioning

confidence: 99%

NATO’s Internal Deepening, Endurance, and Expansion: Economic Incentives and Gains as an Explanatory Complement to Realist Alliance Theory

Esitashvili¹,

Martín

2020

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“…25 Some authors value a diplomatic practice -common interests are socially constructed through interaction and the social construction of identities. 26 Others stress the role of communication and transactions that enable the creation of a common identity. 27 Some see regional cooperation, especially in Southeast Europe, as driven by identity politics.…”

Section: Ripsman´s Eclectic Explanation Of Transition To a Region Of Peacementioning

confidence: 99%

From Negative to Positive Peace in Western Balkans: A Case for Eclectic Theory

Kuľková

2019

CEJISS

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This article analyses a qualitative transformation of relations between the Balkan states since the dissolution of the SFR Yugoslavia in the 90´s until 2008. It argues that military presence and interventions of external powers were enough to make the belligerents fold weapons and thus spread the negative peace but did not substantially aid the qualitative transformation of their relations. Evolving cooperation, mutual restraint, and resolution of conflicts by non-military means that we have perceived in the Balkans since 2003 are results of liberal strategies. It argues for the usefulness of eclectic explanations.

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“…The acquisition of habits may be active through reflexive teaching and learning, or through unconscious adoption and mimicry (Hopf, 2010: 541–542; Pouliot, 2010: 31–32; Verplaken, 2010: 70; Williams, 2007: 25–26). Like all practices, habits begin as “stories” (Neumann, 2002; Pouliot, 2012). These narratives provide “authoritative definitions of truth and morality” and, in turn, guide behaviour (Adler and Pouliot, 2011: 21).…”

Section: Practices Norms and Habitual Dispositionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These new practices and habits do not emerge in a vacuum. They are nested within existing and overlapping practices, norms and, in our case, regional narratives that unite a community (see Neumann, 2002: 635–636; Pouliot, 2012: 214–215). As such, “new” ways of understanding the world and novel practices must be resonant with local perceptions of both appropriateness and efficacy — to be assumed to work in practice (Adler and Pouliot, 2011: 22; Axelrod, 1986: 1097; Crossley, 2013: 152).…”

Section: Practices Norms and Habitual Dispositionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Habits of peace: Long-term regional cooperation in Southeast Asia

Glas

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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The nation-states that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are widely described to be peaceful in their relations with each other, so much so that scholars have referred to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ “long peace.” While it is true that war eludes the region, interstate militarized disputes remain a persistent feature. How can we account for the absence of war between Association of Southeast Asian Nations members in light of persistent militarized disputes? To address this question, this article builds on the emerging International Relations literature on habits and practice in interstate relations. I develop a framework centred on the habitual dispositions of communities of practitioners that focuses on the unreflexive cognitive and behavioural qualities of regional relations. These “habits of peace” circumscribe thinking and behaviour among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ state practitioners. Specifically, they have led to a toleration of limited violence among Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states. After tracing the existence of these habitual qualities of relations, I demonstrate their effects on regional crisis response, which makes possible community building and maintenance alongside considerable levels of interstate violence. I explore this through an in-depth analysis of the regional response to the 2011 Preah Vihear crisis between Cambodia and Thailand.

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Regional security practices and Russian–Atlantic relations

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

NATO’s Internal Deepening, Endurance, and Expansion: Economic Incentives and Gains as an Explanatory Complement to Realist Alliance Theory

NATO’s Internal Deepening, Endurance, and Expansion: Economic Incentives and Gains as an Explanatory Complement to Realist Alliance Theory

From Negative to Positive Peace in Western Balkans: A Case for Eclectic Theory

Habits of peace: Long-term regional cooperation in Southeast Asia

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