The Regional Security Governance of Regional Organizations

摘要

The regional focus to security is back with a vengeance. While never completely out of the mainstream security discourse, the dominance of the Cold War and the subsequent establishment of American unipolarity created a diminished sense of importance for many regarding the nature of security below the system level. While some scholars (such as Lake and Morgan, and Buzan and Waever)1 pursued the idea of regionalization in security, for many the dominance of the United States as the sole superpower tended to produce some sense of a pervasive liberal order throughout the international system.