Policies for Common Security

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000023985
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The basic idea of common security is not complex. It is that no country can obtain security, in the long run, simply by taking unilateral decisions about its own military forces. This is because security depends also on the actions and reactions of potential adversaries. Security has to be found in common with those adversaries. These ideas were considered in a SIPRI conference held in 1983. The conference had two main objectives. The first was to undertake a critical examination of the concept. The second was to consider the implications of the idea for policy in general, and for disarmament and arms control policy in particular. Originally published in 1985, this book contains revised versions of some of the papers presented at the conference.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Half Title
• Original Series Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Conceptual and Political Underpinnings of Common Security
• Part II. Deterrence and Common Security: Alternative Perspectives
• Part III. Disengagement, Alternative Defence and Common Security in Europe
• Part IV. Reports of the Working Groups of the Sipri International Conference on Common Security, September 1983
• List of participants at the SIPRI International Conference on Common Security, September 1983
• Index