Thinking Peaceful Change: Baltic Security Policies and Security Community Building (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815631088)

Frank Möller explores why the states and societies of the Baltic Sea region have not yet evolved into a security community despite the area undergoing, since the mid 1980s, considerable change with little turmoil. This book focuses on the tensions resulting from policies in the Baltic states aiming at an increase in both security and sovereignty. Möller shows how these states' attempts at increasing their security were intricately bound up with their efforts at autonomous nation-state building. Möller argues that a primary obstacle to security community building was the construction of nation-states based upon an exceedingly traditional template emphasizing the connection between the state, sovereignty, and military security. The Baltic states aspired to NATO membership amid unique challenges, such as the perceived threat of renascent Russian imperialism and the perseverance of a collective memory emphasizing anti-Soviet resistance. Möller also examines such key issues as the demise of the Soviet Union, the nonviolent withdrawal of Russian troops from the Baltic states, and U.S. foreign policy in northern Europe.

Here is a profound, multifaceted look at issues of security in the contemporary world- a crucial tool for researchers and students of peace and conflict studies.

Author: Frank Möller
ISBN-10: 0815631081
ISBN-13: 9780815631088
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 398
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.38w x 1.21d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 276