Regionalism in Security and Foreign Policy

Security complex
“a group of states whose primary security concerns link together sufficiently closely that their national securities cannot realistically be considered apart from one another” – Barry Buzan

Security commmunity
“ A SECURIY COMMUNITY is a group of people which has become ‘integrated’.” Karl Deutsch
“… Compatibility of major political values. Capacity of the governments and politically relevant strata of the participating countries to respond to one another’s messages, needs, and actions … without resort to violence. Mutual predictability of the relevant aspects of one another’s political, economic, and social behaviour”
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