Analyzing Security Subregions: Forces of Push, Pull, and Resistance in Nordic Defense Cooperation
Journal: Journal of Global Security Studies
Year: 2021

Abstract How can we best analyze security subregions? The most commonly used theory of regional security in the discipline of international relations, the regional security complex theory, focuses on large regions, such as Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. It pays less attention to smaller regions within these. This is unfortunate, because the security dynamics of these subregions often are a result of more than their place in the larger region. At the same time, the security of subregions canno