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(Not) Reconciling International Security (IS) with Non-traditional Security (NTS) Studies: Westphalia, the ‘West’ and the Long Shadow of 1944 (MacArthur ASI WP No. 17)

Organisation: NTS, RSIS

Authors: Shaun Breslin
Research Themes:
Other NTS Issues
Type: Working Papers
3 August 2011

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Abstract

Understandings of what constitutes international security have been largely influenced by the historical experiences of the great powers. The failed attempts to prevent war in Europe from the 17th century onwards, and latterly the more successful (in its own terms) prevention of a third World War in the second half of the 20th century, did much to establish what was to be secured and how this security could best be achieved.