Regional Organisations and Security Conceptions and practices

Edited by Stephen Aris and Andreas Wenger

SUB Hamburg

13 Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup

LONDON AND NEW YORK

Contents

List offigures ix List of maps x List of tables xi Notes on contributors xii List of abbreviations xv

1 Introduction 1 S T E P H E N A R I S

PART I Africa 19

2 The security culture of the African Union 21 P A U L D . W I L L I A M S

3 Security regionalism in West Africa: conceptions and practices 41 H E L E N E G A N D O I S

4 How much its own and to what end? SADC and the culture of security and regional organisation in Southern Africa 59 P A U L - H E N R I B 1 S C H O F F

PART II (South) East Asia 79

5 ASEAN as a regional organization: security conceptions and practices 81 A N J A J E T S C H K E

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6 The evolving new security agenda in East Asia's regional affairs 99 C H R I S T O P H E R M . D E N T

PART III The Middle East 119

7 Security conceptions and practices in the Middle East: the case of the Arab League 121 R A Y M O N D H 1 N N E B U S C H

PART IV Eurasia 139

8 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: a Eurasian security actor? 141 S T E P H E N A R I S

9 The Collective Security Treaty Organization: a multilateral response to new security challenges? 161 K A T H A R I N A H O F F M A N N

PART V South America 181

10 UNASUR and regional security in South America 183 D E T L E F N O L T E A N D L E S L I E W E H N E R

11 Articulating Mercosur's security conceptions and practices 203 A N D R E A O E L S N E R

PART VI Regional organisations in comparison and global security management 223

12 Regional organisations in security and governance 225 E M I L K I R C H N E R A N D R O B E R T O D O M I N G U E Z

13 Conclusion 244 S T E P H E N A R I S A N D A N D R E A S W E N G E R

Index 265