Description:
This fully updated and expanded second edition of this textbook explores the complex contemporary European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject.
Review Quotes:
"The second edition of Contemporary European Security provides - yet again - the best comprehensive analysis of the ongoing security and geopolitical challenges affecting Europe today. With contributions from key experts in the field, it has become a must read and an invaluable resource for students of European security."
Ana E. Juncos, University of Bristol, UK
"The second edition of Contemporary European Security is a timely update with new sections focused on some of the critical issues driving European security today. It provides a comprehensive background, but the second edition also gives students the tools to consider how very current issues are likely to shape the future. In a time of significant transition in the Transatlantic relationship, this volume is a highly useful guide to a serious and holistic consideration of European security."
Zachary Selden, University of Florida, USA
"The first edition of Contemporary European Security set the standard for teaching European security. This second edition rethinks the field for a continent now confronting interstate war, a faltering transatlantic bargain, and the prospect of providing for its own defence. Galbreath, Chappell, and Mawdsley have assembled an authoritative cast that takes students from the contested meanings of 'Europe' and 'security' through the institutional architecture, including NATO, the EU, and the OSCE, the actors shaping European security, and the contemporary strategic challenges now reshaping the continent. The result is a comprehensive guide to contemporary European security that will be indispensable to students, teachers, and researchers alike."
Richard G. Whitman, University of Kent, UK