Shaping South East Europe's Security Community for the Twenty-First Century : Trust, Partnership, Integration

In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe. They attempt to conceptualize and realize security as a cooperative endeavour for collective good, in contrast to security narratives driven by power and national egotism. This book brings together leading academic specialists and policy practitioners to explore and develop cooperative approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe and the wider international community. Including a range of contributors from South East European countries, the United States, and other interested regional parties, this book focuses upon trust, partnership, and a striving for more effective regional integration. In antithesis to traditional approaches to national security driven by the illusions of power and national egotism, this collection adopts what has become the dominant approach to security management in South East Europe today - an attempt to conceptualize and realize security in all of its aspects as a cooperative endeavour for the collective good. This book explores transnational challenges that will dominate the international security agenda in the years to come, in South East Europe and beyond. Issues considered include management of weapons of mass destruction, cyber security, transnational organized crime and corruption, violent extremism and terrorism, energy security, maritime security, economic development, and demographic change Front Matter....Pages i-xx Shaping the Twenty-First Century International Security Community in South East Europe and Beyond: An Introduction....Pages 1-27 European Missile Defense: Prospects for Cooperation....Pages 28-46 Global Challenges for Managing Cybersecurity in the Twenty-First Century: Enhancing Capacity for South East Europe....Pages 47-64 The Challenges of Corruption and Organized Crime....Pages 65-86 Security Threats of Violent Islamist Extremism and Terrorism for South East Europe and Beyond....Pages 87-113 Energy Security in South East Europe....Pages 114-133 Maritime Security Challenges in South East Europe....Pages 134-150 Security through Economic Development and Strengthening Institutional Capacity: From the Era of Transition to an Era of Opportunity in South East Europe....Pages 151-165 Transnational Migration and Demographic Security Challenges....Pages 166-196 Conclusion....Pages 197-215 Back Matter....Pages 217-225