Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Introduction and theoretical overview. Security communities in theoretical perspective / Emanuel Adler, Michael Barnett. ; A framework for the study of security communities / Emanuel Adler, Michael Barnett. -- Pt. II. Studies in security communities. Insecurity, security, and asecurity in the West European non-war community / Ole Waever. ; Seeds of peaceful change: the OSCE's security community-building model / Emanuel Adler. ; Caravans in opposite directions: society, state and the development of a community in the Gulf Cooperation Council / Michael Barnett, F. Gregory Gause III. ; Collective identity and conflict management in Southeast Asia / Amitav Acharya. ; An emerging security community in South America? / Andrew Hurrell. ; Australia and the search for a security community in the 1990s / Richard A. Higgott, Kim Richard Nossal. ; The United States and Mexico: a pluralistic security community? / Guadalupe Gonzalez, Stephan Haggard. ; No fences make good neighbors: the development of the US-Canadian security community, 1871-1940 / Sean M. Shore. ; A neo-Kantian perspective: democracy, interdependence and international organizations in building security communities / Bruce Russett. -- Pt. III. Conclusions. International communities, secure or otherwise / Charles Tilly. ; Studying security communities in theory, comparison, and history / Michael Barnett, Emanuel Adler.a