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By Brian Katulis
29 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
If there were ever a strong candidate for a reformed and self-sustaining regional security architecture, the Persian Gulf region today would be it. Given the interests at stake, the world has every reason to work toward de-escalating tensions and security threats in the region. Yet to date, divisions among countries in the region combined with tensions from global powers asserting their own interests have complicated any efforts to develop a more coherent and functional security system in the Gulf.
By Benedikt Franke
29 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
With the end of the Cold War, the states of Africa
were galvanized into regional security cooperation in the late 1990s, with much progress achieved since then. These positive developments not only raise the question of how the continent's states managed
to break with their longstanding inability to provide an institutional
basis for inter-African security cooperation, but also to what extent
their experiences hold lessons that could be applied in other regions.
By Richard Weitz
29 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
Perhaps the most surprising feature of the protracted crisis in
Kyrgyzstan is what has not happened: Neither of Eurasia's two
preeminent regional security institutions, the CSTO and the SCO, have coordinated a military intervention in that country. Despite expectations, neither organization has yet become a modern
version of the Warsaw Pact, using military and police power to keep its
client regimes in power.