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One has only to read a newspaper, or cast an eye over recent publishers’ lists in the field of international relations, to see that the demand for regional security analysis is high. The conflicts and crises that represent the most visible elements of international insecurity are nearly always described in regional terms. The crop of most current interest include Europe, the Middle East, the Gulf, Southwest Asia, the Horn, Southern Africa, Indo-China, and Central America.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, Security in Southern Asia 1: The Security of Southwest Asia (Aldershot, 1984); and Timothy George, Robert Litwak and Shahram Chubin, Security in Southern Asia 2: India and the Great Powers (Aldershot, 1984) unpaginated preface, both volumes.
See, for example: Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Reading Mass., 1979);
Karl Deutsch and J. David Singer, ‘Multipolar Power Systems and International Stability’, World Politics, vol. 16 (1964) pp. 390–406;
James N. Rosenau, (ed.), International Politics and Foreign Policy (New York, 1969) chs 27, 28 and 30;
V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (New York, 1939);
Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge, 1981);
and Barry Buzan, ‘Economic Structure and International Security: The Limits of the Liberal Case’, International Organization, vol. 38, no. 4 (1984) pp. 597–624.
See, for example: Richard Rosecrance, Action and Reaction in World Politicss (Westport Conn., 1963),
and International Relations: Peace or War? (New York, 1973).
Raimo Vayrynen, ‘Regional Conflict Formations: An Intractable Problem of International Relations’, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 21, no. 4 (1984) pp. 337–59.
Michael Haas, ‘International Subsystems: Stability and Polarity’, American Political Science Review, vol. 64, no. 1 (1970) p. 100.
Michael Haas, International Conflict (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1974);
and Michael Brecher, ‘International Relations and Asian Studies: The Subordinate State System of Southern Asia’, World Politics, vol. 15, no. 2 (1963) pp. 213–35.
Bruce M. Russett, International Regions and the International System (Chicago, 1967);
Louis J. Cantori and Steven L. Spiegel, The International Politics of Regions: A Compara-tive Approach (New Jersey, 1970).
William R. Thompson, ‘The Regional Subsystem: A Conceptual Explication and a Propositional Inventory’, International Studies Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1 (1973) pp. 89–117.
On this point, see Barry Buzan, ‘Peace, Power, and Security: Contending Concepts in the Study of International Relations’, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 21, no. 2 (1984) pp. 109–25.
For a fuller discussion of the concept of security see: Barry Buzan, People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (Brighton, 1983).
Earlier, attempts to develop the idea of security complexes can be found in Buzan, People, States and Fear (1983) pp. 105–15 and fn 33;
and Barry Buzan, ‘Regional Security as a Policy Objective: the Case of South and Southwest Asia’, in A. Z. Rubinstein (ed.), The Great Game (New York, 1983) ch. 10. These should now be considered less authoritative than the presentation given here.
For a recent discussion see G. S. Bhargava, South Asian Security After Afghanistan (Aldershot, 1983).
Stephen P. Cohen, ‘Pakistan: Coping with Regional Dominance, Multiple Crises, and Great-Power Confrontations’, in Raju Thomas (ed.), The Great Power Triangle and Asian Security (Lexington Mass., 1983) pp. 50–51; Khalilzad, The Security of Southwest Asia, pp. 103–5.
For discussion, see R. J. Barry Jones, ‘Concepts and Models of Change in International Relations’, in Barry Buzan and R. J. Barry Jones (eds), Change and the Study of International Relations (London, 1981) ch. 1.
For more detailed discussion on this point, see: Peter Byrd, Barry Buzan, Peter Ferdinand and William Paterson, The Making of Foreign Policy: A Comparative Perspective (Brighton, forthcoming 1987) ch. 2.
On security communities, see: K. J. Holsti, International Politics: a Framework for Analysis (New Jersey, 1967) ch. 16;
and Karl Deutsch et al., Political Community and the North Atlantic Area (Princeton, 1957).
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Buzan, B. (1986). A Framework For Regional Security Analysis. In: South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07939-1_1
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