The structure of transnational security networks
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Title
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The structure of transnational security networks
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:26cfbe3abe76:11185
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identifier
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11587
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Creator
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Kamran, Annelies Zeri,
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Contributor
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Thomas G. Weiss
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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International relations | global governance | Gramsci | network analysis | nonstate actors | security
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Abstract
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This dissertation maps transnational cooperation to provide security to global governance problems. It begins by outlining the context of contemporary globalization: the drivers of global security governance. It examines how the global governance of both human and traditional security has been affected by the neoliberal economics of the "Washington Consensus." There are clear markers of this transformative, de-institutionalizing change, including the privatization of the provision of security and the public assumption of risk, creating an "historical bloc." This has implications for theory building as well as policy making---security is no longer a matter only for states but a subject of global governance, requiring the cooperation of many actors. It then proposes a new way define security along four axes: source of threat, target, speed, and impact.;It reviews the evolution of the concept of networks in the field of political science in general and international relations in particular, from the analysis of simple balance-of-power systems toward more complex adaptive systems, and examines the arguments in support and against the use of quantitative network analysis for the study of international relations. The ontology and epistemology of using this approach to global governance are defined, as the definitions and conceptions of what is to be studied are affected by the choice of a formal mathematical approach. The relations to be studied are compulsory and institutional power, which together allow conclusions to be drawn about structural power. These are tested on hypotheses on hierarchy and nonobvious relationships.;The first case study maps the construction of a traditional security transnational cooperative response network, using the response to nuclear proliferation since the end of the Cold War. The second case study uses the methods of social network analysis to discover the structural patterns of cooperation that arose in global response to a human security problem, the Indian Ocean tsunami. Finally, the dissertation compares the results of the different case studies by hypothesis, by measure, and by network in order to extract from them the different strategies that actors within networks use, and strategies that can be applied to or used by the networks themselves.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Political Science
