عنوان

Weaving webs of insecurity :

شماره

TLets537599

عنوان اصلي

Weaving webs of insecurity :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Oskanian, Kevork

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

fear, weakness and power in the post-Soviet South Caucasus

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

London School of Economics and Political Science

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2010

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

London School of Economics and Political Science

امتياز متن

2010

متن يادداشت

This thesis' central aim is the application of a Wendtian-constructivist expansion of Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) on a specific case study: the South Caucasus. To that effect, three concepts of RSCT - amity/enmity, state incoherence, and great power penetration - are expanded and developed within the broader above-mentioned ontological-epistemological framework. Amity-enmity is elaborated into an integrated spectrum founded on varying ideational patterns of securitisation alongside objective characteristics, and encompassing conflict formations, security regimes and security communities. States are conceptualised as ideational-institutional-material "providers of security"; their incoherence is characterised over three tiers and two dimensions, leading to a distinction between vertical and horizontal inherent weakness, ostensible instability and failure. Great power penetration is dissected into its objective, subjective and intersubjective elements, resulting in a 1+3+1 typology of its recurring patterns: unipolar, multipolar-cooperative and multipolar-competitive, bounded by hegemony and disengagement. After the specification of a methodology incorporating both objective macro- and interpretive micro-perspectives, two working hypotheses are specified. Firstly, that state incoherence engenders high levels of regional enmity, and, secondly, that patterns of great power penetration primarily affect transitions of regional amity/enmity between conflict formations and security regimes. The framework is subsequently used to triangulate these hypotheses through an application of the theoretical framework on the post-Soviet Southern Caucasus. An initial macro-overview is subsequently provided of the Southern Caucasus as a regional security complex; the three expanded concepts are consequently investigated, in turn, from the discursive micro-perspective. The South Caucasus is categorised into a "revisionist conflict formation", the nature of its states' incoherence is characterised, and existing patterns of great power penetration are identified as competitive-multipolar. In the final chapter, the hypotheses are largely confirmed, and various scenarios as to the possible emergence of a regional security regime are investigated.

موضوع مستند نشده

DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics

موضوع مستند نشده

JQ Political institutions Asia

موضوع مستند نشده

JZ International relations

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Oskanian, Kevork

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

London School of Economics and Political Science

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y