ABSTRACT
Drawing directly on the preceding analysis of various regional organisations (ROs), this chapter sets out the editors’ thoughts about the two sets of research themes laid out in the introduction: one, the nature of the security conceptions and practices of individual ROs beyond Europe, taking into account the regional context in which they have evolved; two, the degree of similarity or dissimilarity in how ‘security’ is seen, prioritised, understood, practised, managed and implemented between ROs across the international system, and the implications of this for the nature of international security and the relationship between global security agendas and a ‘World of Regions’. By doing so, we hope to both summarise the specificities outlined in the various cases, and place these within loose conceptual categories that may provide analytical insight into the degree of convergence and divergence between security multilateralism across regional contexts.
