- Author:
Leszek Sadurski
- Institution:
University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin
- Year of publication:
2022
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
137-153
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2022.75.08
- PDF:
apsp/75/apsp7508.pdf
The Theory of Regional Security Complexes (RSC) provides a conceptual framework to encompass the emerging new post-Cold War international security order. It proposes a model of regional security which makes it possible to analyse, explain and predict the development of the situation in a given region. It is based on the assumption that it is the regional level, not the global or the level of a single state, that constitutes the optimal basis for conducting security analyses. So far, few researchers have attempted to challenge the theoretical assumptions of the RSC concept, and few have tried to develop or supplement it. At the same time, it is clear that the emerging new types of challenges, changing the state’s behaviour, force the revision or updating of some existing theoretical frameworks. It also applies to the Regional Security Complex theory and the adaptation of its conceptual framework to the surrounding reality so that it can continue to be reliably studied. This article considers the possibilities of further evolution of the RSC theory and, in particular, analyses the state of its development to date and proposes solutions to complement it and adapt it to newly emerging phenomena.
- Author:
Damian Jarnicki
- E-mail:
damian.jarnicki@uws.edu.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet w Siedlcach
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-6200
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
60-85
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/npw20244004
- PDF:
npw/40/npw4004.pdf
Status and importance of the Three Seas in construction of contemporary global security architecture
This article covers a cross-sectional and updating reflection on the phenomena taking place in the security sphere of the region, the so-called Three Seas. The research subject of the article is the Three Seas Initiative format as a potential subjective keystone of the security of Central and Eastern Europe, treated taking into account historical and current events, as one of the foundations of not only the European or Euro-Atlantic, but also the global security architecture. The priority research goal was to present and analyze the progress and integration and institutional perspectives of the Three Seas Region, and thus an attempt to search for the status arrangements of this format, by analyzing this geopolitical space in the light of, above all, the concept of regional security complexes (but also, among others, geopolitical wedges, the influence of superpowers of the global balance of power). The findings presented in these investigations signal both attempts to comprehensively bind the region with interdependence, attempts at far-reaching rapprochement and co-creation of soft security architecture – in the form of development-progressing infrastructure, as well as pragmatic and conservative behavior, resulting from both the geopolitical dynamics and current national calculations of the Three Seas countries.