There has been an increasing international presence and activism of non-state actors, working along nation states, such as regional organizations. However, different regional organizations have different historical experiences or geopolitical implications, and have developed different goals, strategies and rationales to deal with regional and international threats. This work seeks to examine and compare the contributions and limitations of the main regional organizations to the construction of international security governance. This volume introduces the concept of security governance to...

This book explores why the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remains a largely unknown entity as far as the general public are concerned, despite its significant day-to-day activity not only on the diplomatic front, but also via its 16 field operations.
While the main achievement of its predecessor, the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), was to bridge the East-West divide in Europe during the Cold War, the CSCE was transformed into the OSCE in 1995 to respond to the various challenges generated by the emergence of a multipolar world. Ever...