Securing Europe

Examines the emergence and practice of a Western model of intervention, which combines 'hard'/military and 'soft'/peace approaches, and assesses its success and failures in the light of operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Introduction; Chapter 1: The Application of Pluralistic Security Community in Europe: A New Model for Europe?; Chapter 2: Obstacles Towards Effective Implementation of a European Security Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Chapter 3: The Consolidation of the Security Community in the Balkans: Fact or Fiction? The Case of Kosovo-Metohia; Chapter 4: Turkish-Kurdish Relations and the European Union: An Unprecedented Shift in Kemalist Paradigm; The Caucasus; Chapter 5: Chechnya; Chapter 6: Georgia; Chapter 7: Nagorno-Karabakh; Conclusion.