Regional Economic Organizations and Conventional Security Challenges

✍ Scribed by M. Leann Brown (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 112
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis. While the literature suggests multiple possible explanations for regional economic organizations’ response to these security challenges, including systemic and power-related factors, organizational factors and functional needs, and cognitive and social factors, the author argues that the decision to transform a regional economic organization into a conventional security actor is most influenced by decision makers’ perceptions of threat and functional necessity.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Regional Economic Organizations and Conventional Security Challenges (M. Leann Brown)....Pages 1-11
Theorizing Organizational Change (M. Leann Brown)....Pages 13-34
The 1978–1991 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff (M. Leann Brown)....Pages 35-51
The 1990 Economic Community of West African States-Liberian Civil War Challenge (M. Leann Brown)....Pages 53-75
The 1990–1991 European Communities-Balkans Crisis (M. Leann Brown)....Pages 77-98
Explaining and Understanding Regional Economic Organizations’ Response to Conventional Security Challenges (M. Leann Brown)....Pages 99-107

✦ Subjects

International Security Studies