Aris / Snetkov / Wenger Inter-organisational Relations in International Security

Cooperation and Competition
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-67139-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations

The book examines the relationships between multilateral institutions that play a significant role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.

The topic of "inter-organisational relations in international security" emerges from the growing trend for multilateral institutions to emphasise their ties to other such institutions, often using such links as evidence of their legitimacy, relevance and influence. While others, conversely, enter into disputes with one another over their policies, agendas, authority and control over resources. This trend has been accompanied by a growth in commentary about the politics of multilateral governance. Against this background, it is surprising that the topic of "inter-organizational relations" has been largely neglected by the academic literature on International Relations (IR). While there are abundant works on the nature, composition, institutional design, conceptions and practices of various global and regional multilateral institutions, there are few focused on the relationships between them. This book seeks to contribute to filling this gap. Drawing on the few existent IR works on the topic that note the importance of "environmental embeddedness", "inter-organizational networking" and "organisational interplay", the book adopts a relational perspective that foregrounds and emphasises the stakes, processes and outcomes of the relationships between multilateral institutions.

To this end, this book adopts the established conceptual toolkit for assessing inter-organizational relations within the Organizational Studies literature. It starts from the assumption that inter-organizational relationships are politically both significant and contested (either more cooperatively or more antagonistically). Therefore, by critically investigating bilateral, trilateral and wider networks of inter-organizational relations, we can better understand the dynamics underlying the contemporary governance of international security.

This book will be of much interest to students of international security, international organisations, global governance and area studies, more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aris, Stephen

Snetkov, Aglaya

Wenger, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction, Stephen Aris and Andreas Wenger

PART I: THE GLOBAL-REGIONAL RELATIONSHIP

- The United Nations and Regional Security Organisations in Africa, Europe, and the North-Atlantic Region, Ulrich Franke

- Inter-Organizational Relations in a Nested Environment: Regional Organizations in the UN, Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis

- Cooperation and competition: United Nations-African Union Relations, Martin Welz

PART II: INTER-REGIONALISM

- Networked inter-regional organizational security: new hubs or old hierarchies?, Andrea Oelsner and Roberto Dominguez

- An emerging inter-regional peace and security partnership: The African Union and the European Union, Ulf Engel

- Interregional Multilateralism from the South: The Case of the Zone of Peace and Cooperation in the South Atlantic, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Frank Mattheis and Pedro Seabra

PART III: INTRA-REGIONALISM

- From interlocking to interblocking regionalism: NATO, the EU, the OSCE and the problem of regional security, Simon Koschut

- "Multilateralisms at War? Contending Visions of Regional Architecture in East Asia", See Seng Tan

- Competing claims for security governance in South America, Detlef Nolte and Brigitte Weiffen

- In-between Europe and Asia: Regional organisations and Eurasian region-making, Stephen Aris and Aglaya Snetkov

PART IV: GOVERNING SECURITY ISSUES

- Fluid Spatialities and the Governance of Child Trafficking in West Africa, Nick Bernards



- Managing Cross-border Crises in Southeast Asia at Multiple Levels of Governance: Complementary or Competitive Institutional Developments at the National, ASEAN Regional and EU-ASEAN Inter-regional Levels?, Naila Maier-Knapp

- Sanctions Cooperation and Regional Organizations, Inken von Borzyskowski and Clara Portela

- Conclusion, Aglaya Snetkov and Andreas Wenger

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Aris is Senior Researcher at Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Aglaya Snetkov is Senior Researcher at Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Andreas Wenger is Director and Professor of Security Policy at Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.