ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter, Engel and Mattheis combine the findings of the volume and propose three different typologies to categorise regional organisations in the Global South, with a focus on those that are active in the field of security. The first proposal is to cluster them according to their budget size, either in nominal or relative terms. The second proposal is to cluster them according to their funding sources, from donor-dependent to member-dependent to autonomous. The third proposal is to cluster regional organisations according to the basis of calculation of financial contribution, from equal shares to economic power to hegemony. This chapter discusses advantages and limitations of each typology and formulates a number of claims about why members pay or do not pay, the dynamics of overlapping regionalism, the relation with regional actorness and donor influence. The chapter concludes by identifying countertrends to the finances in multilateral organisations by posing new research questions that have emerged through the work in this volume.
