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- W2030171729 abstract "Thinking Peaceful Change: Baltic Security Policies and Security Community Building. By Moller Frank. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. 368 pp., $39.95 (ISBN: 0-8156-3108-1).Frank Moller's Thinking Peaceful Change argues that the three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) have developed security policies aimed at constructing their newly independent states rather than taking advantage of an historic opportunity to build a “security community.” Moller claims that, after the peaceful retreat of Russian troops in the 1990s, the Baltic states did little to imagine and realize possible new forms of security, based on what he labels “peaceful change.” The book radiates regret that the Baltic states have missed an opportunity to reject the classical pattern of state-building, in which an “Other” is imagined and a security discourse is constructed on the basis of confrontation with, and fear of, that “Other” (Walker 1993; Booth 1998). Moller argues that the building of a security community requires a break with conventional security thinking and such arrangements as military alliances and strict border regimes that are based on classical notions of the balance of power. By building up their militaries and joining NATO, the Baltic states clearly chose the “realist path” to security.Thinking Peaceful Change is a valuable contribution to the foreign policy analysis of the Baltic states, especially given that it takes into account aspects of social memory studies (see, for example, Olick 2003; Ricoeur 2006) as well as discourse analysis. The book is, in this respect, decidedly eclectic in its methodology, which Moller …" @default.
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- W2030171729 title "Imagining a Baltic Paradise" @default.
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