The security governance of regional organizations / / edited by Emil J. Kirchner and Roberto Dominguez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790178803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-64504-7; 1-280-66138-0; 9786613638311; 0-203-80500-3; 1-136-64505-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Collana: Routledge global institutions series ; ; 58
• Altri autori (Persone): DominguezRoberto <1967->; KirchnerEmil Joseph
• Disciplina: 355/.031
• Soggetti: Regionalism (International organization); Security, International
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Security Governance of Regional Organizations; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Regional organizations and security governance; Part I: Transatlantic area; 2. The European Union as a regional and global security provider; 3. Security governance in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 4. The OSCE as a regional security actor: A security governance perspective; Part II: Western Hemisphere; 5. Regional security governance in the Americas: The Organization of American States; 6. The Caribbean Community's fourth pillar: The evolution of regional security governance7. Understanding the complexities of security governance in the Andean region; 8. Mercosur's incipient security governance; Part III: Asia and Africa; 9. Lessons from the ASEAN Regional Forum: Transcending the image of paper tiger?; 10. The Shanghai framework and Central Asia: Chop-suey governance?; 11. The African Union and the quest for security governance in Africa; 12. The performance of regional organizations in security governance; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Security Governance of Regional Organizations assesses the effectiveness of regional organizations as regional or global security providers, and examines how policy preferences, resources, capabilities, institutional mechanisms and economic and political cohesion link with collective action behaviour in four security policy functions. It investigates how regional organizations meet the new security threats or respond to strategic geopolitical changes and what adaptations they make in the process. Divided into three parts and using a common analytical framework, the book explain