The Security Governance of Regional Organizations

There has been an increasing international presence and activism of non-state actors, working along nation states, such as regional organizations. However, different regional organizations have different historical experiences or geopolitical implications, and have developed different goals, strategies and rationales to deal with regional and international threats. This work seeks to examine and compare the contributions and limitations of the main regional organizations to the construction of international security governance. This volume introduces the concept of security governance to analyze the performance of ten regional organizations. It asks what lessons can be derived from previous experiences policies of these ten organizations, and what mechanisms or methods of governance might be usefully applied to other regional organizations, or for the broader global order. It also asks what the measures and conditions of success will be, as well as what problems or challenges need to be overcome.