How Long to Read Security Community in and Through Practice

How Long Does it Take to Read Security Community in and Through Practice?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 48 minutes to read Security Community in and Through Practice by Vincent Pouliot

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How do security communities develop in and through practice? For more than forty years, security relations between Russia and NATO member states were structured by the spectre of mutual assured destruction as symbolized by thousands of nuclear missiles targeted at each other. Less than a generation after the end of the Cold War, the possibility of military confrontation between these former enemies has considerably receded. Taking inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu, this dissertation develops a theory of practice of security communities that argues that on the ground of international politics, the social fact of peace emerges when security practitioners come to debate with diplomacy---the non-violent settlement of disputes---instead of about diplomacy. It is doxa, a relationship of immediate adherence to the order of things, that makes such a peaceful practical sense possible. In the empirical analysis, the dissertation reveals an intriguing paradox in the post-Cold War Russian-Atlantic relationship. On the one hand, over the last fifteen years Russia and NATO member states have solved each and every one of their disputes, including fierce ones over the double enlargement, by nonviolent means. Such a track record of peaceful change is testimony to security-community-building processes. But on the other hand, diplomatic success was often bought at the price of a growing mistrust on the Russian side. As the Russian Great Power habitus resurfaced, hysteresis---a disconnect between players' dispositions and their positions in the game---steadily increased to the point of inconclusive symbolic power struggles over the rules of the international security game and the roles that each player should play. A decade and a half after the end of the Cold War, Russian-Atlantic relations have left the terrain of military confrontation but have yet to settle on that of mature peace. Building on several dozen interviews with Russian and NATO security practitioners, the dissertation discovers that diplomacy has become a normal though not a self-evident practice in Russian-Atlantic dealings.

How long is Security Community in and Through Practice?

Security Community in and Through Practice by Vincent Pouliot is 628 pages long, and a total of 162,024 words.

This makes it 212% the length of the average book. It also has 198% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Security Community in and Through Practice Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 45 minutes to read Security Community in and Through Practice aloud.

What Reading Level is Security Community in and Through Practice?

Security Community in and Through Practice is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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