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Smith, Michael. "Balancing Turmoil: Containing Conflict and the Rise of Zones of Peace" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40745_index.html>

Smith, M. S. , 2005-09-01 "Balancing Turmoil: Containing Conflict and the Rise of Zones of Peace" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40745_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Below is a paper that asks the broad question defining an intra-realism debate over the incentives the international system provides for state behavior: Are states power-maximizers or are they risk-minimizers? I argue that if they are the former, they will tend to join a conflict once it erupts in order to exploit the opportunities it presents for positional betterment or to keep others from gaining advantage. If they are risk-minimizers, they will seek means for containing not exploiting conflict when it breaks out. I argue that the potential costs of wider war generally outweigh the potential payoffs of expansive policies that may threaten regional or global stability. In doing so, I expand defensive realism to introduce the concept of “balancing turmoil” to help explain why conflict tends not to ignite boundless hostilities but is instead often met by cooperation of others who seek to avoid wider war. While this paper is primarily concerned with mapping out the “balancing turmoil” logic, it draws out some of the corollary arguments this logic leads us to. Moreover, it presents an alternate view of vertical European cooperation since World War II. It argues that the impetus for European cooperation—which has overwhelmingly occurred in the decades following World War II and the Cold War—has been the need to “balance turmoil” stemming from the outbreak of war in Eastern Europe. Indeed, the early seeds of European integration lie not so much in the Soviet Union but in the Greek civil war.

Knowledge and Power: The Relationship Between Political Science Research and European Union Policy-Making in Constructing 'European Internal Security' (1999-2008)

"Civilizing" the Post-Soviet European Space: A Comparison between the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)