ABSTRACT
This book examines the politics of the relationships between multilateral organizations that have come to play a major role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.
Drawing on concepts developed in Organizational Studies, the book starts from the assumption that inter-organizational relationships are the product of contested politics. Politics that may be either more cooperative or more competitive, but which always contains elements of both. This volume focuses on inter-organizational relations emanating from, through and towards the regional scale. The proliferation in the number of regional multilateral organizations in recent decades and their growing claims to represent effective and legitimate frameworks to address security threats and issues has been widely noted. The book is organized into four sections, covering all aspects of the inter-organizational relationships in which regional multilateral organizations are involved: global-regional, intra-regional, inter-regional, and multi-scalar. Each chapter addresses a distinct case study of inter-organizational relations (bilateral, trilateral or wider network), and examines the politics shaping these relations.
This book will be of much interest to students of international security, international organizations, global governance and area studies, more generally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Cooperating and competing
part I|52 pages
The global–regional relationship
chapter 3|16 pages
Inter-organizational relations in a nested environment
part II|76 pages
Intra-regionalism
chapter 5|19 pages
Inter(b)locking institutions
chapter 8|20 pages
In-between Europe and Asia
part III|60 pages
Inter-regionalism
chapter 10|18 pages
An emerging inter-regional peace and security partnership
chapter 11|19 pages
Inter-regional multilateralism in the Global South
part IV|69 pages
Governing security issues