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Multilateral Security: Common, Cooperative or Collective?

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Future Multilateralism

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The concept of’ security’ has been used analytically in an ambiguous way’ thus creating a problem of homonymy; the same word is used for different meanings. According to Barry Buzan, security has been ‘a weakly conceptualized but politically powerful concept’. Politically, it has been used to legitimate very different external and internal policies depending on the internal structure of the state and its international position. This has fuelled controversies and made security, in Buzan’s view, an ‘essentially contested concept’.1

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    Michael G. Schechter (Professor of International Relations) (Professor of International Relations)

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Väyrynen, R. (1999). Multilateral Security: Common, Cooperative or Collective?. In: Schechter, M.G. (eds) Future Multilateralism. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27153-5_3

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