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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791917903321

Autore

Wagnsson Charlotte

Titolo

Security in a greater Europe [[electronic resource] ] : the possibility of a pan-European approach / / Charlotte Wagnsson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan, c2008

ISBN

1-78170-163-6

1-84779-237-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Reappraising the Political S.

Disciplina

327.172094 22

Soggetti

Security, International - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-183]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Security in a greater Europe -- Kosovo: a precedent? -- 11 September 2001: a new perspective unfolds -- Iraq reshuffles Europe -- The European Union and the major European powers -- Russia and the EU: the need for pragmatism -- Will greater Europe unite?.

Sommario/riassunto

Can Russia, the European Union and the three major EU member states adopt a unified policy line in the global arena? Charlotte Wagnsson investigates the cohesiveness of 'greater Europe' through the detailed scrutiny of policy statements by the leadership elites in the UK, France, Germany, Russia and the EU in connection with three defining events in international security: the crisis in Kosovo of 1999; the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003. This extensive empirical enquiry results in a critical constructivist response to neorealist understandings of European security. The b