Abstract
Abstract Interregionalism has been increasingly used to advance cooperation on regional and global security challenges. This study examines three interregional dialogues comprising East Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Each interregional security agenda reflects specific concerns and different evolving paths. Insights from ‘multilateral security governance’ approaches can reinforce the analysis of how security agendas emerge and change, and how their related norms and practices evolve.
Highlights
In recent decades the international community has been challenged by an ever more globalized and interdependent world, which generated serious challenges and threats that cannot be effectively dealt with by unilateral action
These multilateral forums include a diversity of bilateral, regional and multilateral, formal and informal structures, “involving regions and states as well as geographic regions and constructed regions” (Baert et al 2014, 172). These multi-regional forums have received substantial scholarly attention in recent years (Breslin and Croft 2013; Kacowicz and Press-Barnathan 2016; Ceccorulli and Lucarelli 2013; Santini et al 2014), and have attracted the attention of policymakers and security practitioners. An example of the latter was the open debate held by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in December 2017, on “Addressing complex contemporary challenges to international peace and security” (UNSC 2017)
Besides providing additional empirical information from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-European Union (EU) and EU-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) security agendas, this study offers new empirical data from the interaction between East Asia and LAC
Summary
In recent decades the international community has been challenged by an ever more globalized and interdependent world, which generated serious challenges and threats that cannot be effectively dealt with by unilateral action. NTS issues, which are transboundary in nature, require comprehensive responses (Caballero-Anthony 2016), and seem to require new forms of interregional governance In this context, during the last two decades we have seen interregional dialogue forums becoming an important systemic international phenomenon. These multilateral forums include a diversity of bilateral, regional and multilateral, formal and informal structures, “involving regions and states as well as geographic regions and constructed regions” (Baert et al 2014, 172) These multi-regional forums have received substantial scholarly attention in recent years (Breslin and Croft 2013; Kacowicz and Press-Barnathan 2016; Ceccorulli and Lucarelli 2013; Santini et al 2014), and have attracted the attention of policymakers and security practitioners. Even if an important part of interregional cooperation is still rhetorical or symbolic, it could be a stepping-stone towards stronger multilateral security cooperation (Rüland et al 2006)
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