If one trend characterizes the study of foreign and security policy over the past several decades, it may be the search for concepts that assist in addressing the complexity of global politics.2 We embrace that complexity and reimagine security as a social phenomenon that interweaves between social collectives, bleeding across boundaries and tying collectivities together as they seek to reconcile different systems of security meaning-making. At its core, security is a socially constructed system for making sense of danger and threat (Buzan et al. 1998). Thinking about security as a phenomenon of linked social constructions opens the field of inquiry up to a massive amount of complexity and interactivity. We offer two concepts as a possible basis for …

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安全的复杂性和跨境影响：英国和德国的统一，1989-90

如果过去几十年的外交和安全政策研究有一个趋势，那么它可能是寻找有助于解决全球政治复杂性的概念。 2 我们接受这种复杂性，并将安全重新想象为一种社会现象，在社会集体，在寻求协调不同的安全意义系统时跨越边界并将集体联系在一起。就其核心而言，安全是一种社会构建的系统，用于感知危险和威胁（Buzan 等，1998）。将安全视为一种相互关联的社会结构现象，为大量的复杂性和交互性打开了探究领域。我们提供两个概念作为……的可能基础