Regional Organisations and Security

Stephen Aris is Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. He is author of Eurasian Regionalism: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2011).Andreas Wenger is Professor and Director of the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, and author/editor of multiple books, as well as editor of the Routledge CSS Studies in Security and International Relations series.

• 1. Introduction, Stephen Aris Part I: Africa 2. The Security Culture of the African Union, Paul Williams 3. Security Regionalism in West Africa: Conceptions and Practices, Helene Gandois 4. How much its own and to what end? SADC and the culture of security and regional organisation in Southern Africa, Paul-Henri Bischoff Part II: (South) East Asia 5. ASEAN as a Regional Organization: Security Conceptions and Practices, Anja Jetschkev 6. The Evolving New Security Agenda in East Asia’s Regional Affairs, Christopher M. Dent Part III: Middle East 7. Security Conceptions and Practices in the Middle East: The Case of the Arab League, Raymond Hinnebusch Part IV: Eurasia 8. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Eurasian security actor?, Stephen Aris 9. The Collective Security Treaty Organization: A Multilateral Response to New Security Challenges?, Katharina Hoffmann Part V: South America 10. UNASUR and Regional Security in South America, Detlef Nolte and Leslie Wehner 11. Articulating Mercosur’s security conceptions and practices, Andrea Oelsner Part VI: Regional Organisations in Comparison and Global Security Management 12. Regional Organisations in Security and Governance, Emil Kirchner and Roberto Domínguez 13. Conclusion, Stephen Aris and Andreas Wenger

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