The State and Dilemmas of Security: The Middle East and the Balkans

This article argues that even if the state represents a solution to the security needs of one group of people, it may be a source of threat to another. This is so because the construction of the state is necessarily an exclusive process, and those who are excluded in some cases become a source of th...

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Published in:	Security dialogue Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 415 - 427
Main Author:	MESSARI, NIZAR
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London SAGE Publications 01-12-2002
Subjects:	Balkan States Citizenship Civil war Ethnic groups International relations International security Middle East National Identity National Security Peacetime Plural Societies Political security Security dilemma Southeast Europe Sovereign states Sovereignty State State formation State Role State-society relations Territories Third World
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