Abstract
The introduction makes the case for addressing the issue of the Euro-Atlantic security system in the 21st century and explains the importance of the system and of its evolution form cooperation to rivalry and crisis. The author adopts the neorealist perspective as a method of analysis, and refers to the premises championed by Kenneth Waltz, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. The book has three parts. The first presents the background for the analysis, i.e., the origins of the Euro-Atlantic security system (Chap. 1), the changing challenges and threats faced by that system (Chap. 2), and the security concepts of the system’s participants (Chap. 3); the second contains an analysis of the functioning of the system—from cooperation to crisis (Chaps. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7); while the third presents the consequences of the erosion of cooperation within the system leading to the Ukraine crisis, and shows the prospects for the system’s evolution.
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Gorbachev (1987).
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One German scholar uses the term ‘Transatlantic security community’. See Risse (2016).
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Cottey (2013), pp. 13–17, 259.
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Ibidem, pp. 260–261.
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In conclusion he said: “[W]e would like to interact with responsible and independent partners with whom we could work together in constructing a fair and democratic world order that would ensure security and prosperity not only for a select few, but for all.” Putin’s Prepared Remarks at 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy, Washington Post, February 12, 2007.
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More see Pawłuszko (2014), pp. 125–151.
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Walt (1998), pp. 110, 44.
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Viotti and Kauppi (1987), pp. 6–71; K. Waltz represents a different approach. He considers the premise about the state’s rationality to be unnecessary, and in his view the system affects the behavior of the state through processes of socialization and competition. See Taliaferro (2000/2001), p. 156.
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Waltz (1979), p. 93.
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Waltz (2000), p. 18 et seq.
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Schweller (2001), pp. 177–179.
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Kolodziej (2005), pp. 26–27.
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Waltz (1979), p. 131.
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Gilpin (1984), pp. 29–34.
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Organski (1958), p. 326.
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Keohane (1969), p. 296. Constructivists accord greater significance to this aspect of states’ differentiation.
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Waltz (1979), pp. 79–105.
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Nolan (1994), p. 5.
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Ibidem, pp. 5–6.
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Jack Donnelly uses the term “functional differentiation”. See Donnelly (2012), p. 617 et seq.
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Waltz (1979), pp. 97–98.
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Ibidem, p. 126.
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Waltz (1997).
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Mearsheimer (2001), pp. 156–157.
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Parent and Rosato (2015), pp. 60–85.
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Fiammenghi (2011), pp. 153–154.
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Kupchan (2012), pp. 5–8.
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Zięba, R. (2018). Introduction. In: The Euro-Atlantic Security System in the 21st Century. Global Power Shift. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79105-0_1
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