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ASEAN's cooperative security enterprise : norms and interests in the ASEAN regional forum
\"ASEANs Security Enterprise explores the significance of ASEANs cooperative security enterprise the questions of whether and in what sense this enterprise matters\"--Provided by publisher.
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Analyzing the influence of regional security on international student flows in the MENA region: a social network approach
The international order has shifted from unipolar to multipolar, marked by international organizations, security alliances, and economic cooperation. This change is mirrored in international student mobility (ISM), with a shift towards a multipolar structure and the emergence of regional hubs alongside traditional destinations. While ISM scholarship often focuses on East-West and South-North flows, this study employs regional security complex theory (RSCT) to analyze intra-regional patterns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using social network analysis, we compare ISM data from 2011 and 2020, revealing that MENA is far from achieving full regionalization. Sub-regions with divergent security dynamics shape ISM by creating regional education complexes based on allied or adversarial relations. The findings highlight Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco as influential hubs, reflecting distinct security zones where higher education serves as a strategic tool for alliance-building. Türkiye attracts students from the Middle East, Africa, and Turkic nations, while Morocco emerges as a hub for African and European ISM. The results contribute to the advancement of regionalization theory, underscoring the importance of considering regional security complexes when analyzing ISM trends across diverse geopolitical contexts. These insights offer valuable guidance for policymakers and stakeholders in promoting cross-border educational cooperation in MENA. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
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Regional security dialogue in the Middle East : changes, challenges and opportunities
\"At this time of considerable political turmoil in the Middle East, with little progress observable in the Arab-Israeli peace process and Iran's continuing pursuit of a nuclear program, there is a pressing need to explore alternative frameworks for regional security. The book discusses the Helsinki Process as one potentially relevant historical model to learn from. The Helsinki Process began in a divided Europe in the early 1970s and, over 40 years, achieved major successes in promoting cooperation between the Warsaw Pact and NATO member states on social, human rights, security, and political issues. In this volume, established Middle East experts, former diplomats, and emerging scholars assess the regional realities from a broad range of perspectives and, with the current momentum for reform across the Middle East, chart a path towards a comprehensive mechanism that could promote long-term regional security. Providing a gamut of views on regional threat perception and suggesting ways forward for regional peace, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in Politics, the Middle East and Conflict Studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Implications of Operation Amotekun Regional Security Outfit on the Maintenance of National Integration in Nigeria
This paper examines the implications of Operation Amotekun on the maintenance of national integration in Nigeria. The main objective of the study is to assess the rationale, positive, and negative outcomes of setting up a regional security outfit on the continuous existence of Nigeria as a nation. The data for this study were obtained through secondary sources of data collection. These sources include the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, newspaper publications, bulletins, magazines, journal, and reports from non-governmental organisations such as Amnesty International, the Red Cross, and Transparency International on internal security situations. The findings of the paper revealed that the failure of security agencies to guarantee the security of lives and property of average citizens was largely responsible for the formation of regional security outfits such as Operation Amotekun in order to complement the efforts of already existing security apparatus provided by the federal government. However, appropriate legislation must be put in place in order to ensure that the activities of regional security outfits do not constitute a threat to the maintenance of national integration due to the overbearing influence of the respective state governors on their operations. It is therefore recommended that regional security outfits work in synergy with already existing security agencies in order to ensure professionalism, national cohesion, observance of the rules of engagement, and peaceful coexistence in the long run.
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Evolving identity politics and cross-strait relations : bridging theories of international relations and nationalism
\"The cross Taiwan Strait clash has evolved from a regime challenge revolving around ideological confrontation between Taipei and Beijing into a conflict about Taiwan's nationhood. In Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, Yana Zuo shows that Taiwan's future is still full of uncertainty and unpredictability. A mutually acceptable solution is not likely without the 'one China' principle as an independent Taiwan fundamentally challenges China's modern national identity. Zuo demonstrates that dialogues between nationalism studies and international relations are urgently needed in explaining much of the identity-related conflict. States are under pressure of finding balance between an ordered state and a harmonious society. National consciousness contributes as a possible starting point to bring the society back to constructivism theorization of identity. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Power dynamics at the global-regional nexus: examining structural constraints on regional conflict management
How does the interaction of power at the global-regional nexus impact the behavior of regional powers? Neorealism predicts that changes in polarity accompany changes in expectations regarding great power behavior. The cases below consider strategic approaches to crisis mediation pursued by regional powers Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Russia under conditions of bipolarity, unipolarity, and multipolarity to assess the impact of the international system’s structure on regional power behavior. Consistently, the cases in this article show regional powers adopting roles that seek to preempt great power involvement, regardless of the regional power’s orientation toward the system. Even if different polarities generate variations in uncertainty among great powers at the international level, as neorealism predicts, those variations do not filter any clarity regarding great power intentions down to the regional level. This consistency in regional power behavior may provide a baseline for analysis as emerging multipolarity increases the complexity of regional disputes.
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Reassessing the power of regional security providers: the case of Algeria and Morocco
The concept of power and the ways to measure it are central to the literature on regional security providers. The predominant model has power rooted in material capabilities. This article recognizes that such capabilities are important but contends that for a state to be become a regional security provider, it must meet certain preconditions, foremost amongst them: possession of necessary material and ideational capacity; judicious employment of such power resources; and regional recognition of its leadership. Obvious as it may sound, effective leadership is also heavily contingent upon the domestic performance of regional powers. In this regard, the choice of Algeria and Morocco provides an interesting comparative case to broaden the traditional determinants of how to categorize regional security providers. Surprisingly, Morocco has been neglected in studies on regional security in the Maghreb and Sahel despite its rising ideational and economic influence in the region. Even Algeria has seen few studies use an integral approach to analyze its roles, orientations and performance as a regional security provider.
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National Security and the Resort to Unconventional Outfits by Nigeria’s Geo-Political Zones: Implications for National Integration
This paper examined the correlation between the current Nigeria’s security architecture, the burgeoning insecurity across the country, the resort to alternative security measures by some geo-political zones, and the implications for national integration. The study, which is essentially descriptive or qualitative in approach, gathered data from secondary shreds of evidence. Building upon variants of the social contract and securitisation theories, the study argued that the lack of robust and prompt responses to calls for protection has diminished the confidence of Nigerian citizens in security institutions. Findings revealed that failure in the country’s centrally managed security architecture, comprising the armed forces, the police, para-military forces, etc., necessitated the resort to self-help through the formation of regional security outfits across the nation. The paper recommended, among other measures, the decentralisation of the national security structure through the creation of state and community policing. Aside from ensuring grassroots security and quick access to law enforcement agents by citizens, community-based approaches to security have the potential to strengthen the links between formal and informal systems, as well as unity, peaceful co-existence, and above all, national integration.
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Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Regional Insecurity in the African Sahel
This article places the problem of insurgency and counterinsurgency in the African Sahel region in a regional perspective to elucidate the interplay of local and external forces that have impacted present dynamics. The paper argues that the Sahel is not a unified Regional Security Complex but a space of overlapping security complexes, a factor that clearly complicates the security situation in the region, as well as the prospect of effective threats' securitization. Two related concentrics of political insurgencies in the contemporary Sahel region, the Malian axis and the Lake Chad Basin axis, are depicted and analyzed. The constellation of factors and actors underpinning and driving the insurgencies are examined.
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The Construction of Regional Ecological Security Pattern Based on a Multi-Factor Comprehensive Model and Circuit Theory
Various ecological problems have become increasingly prominent due to the accelerated growth of urbanization. Ecological security and ecological conservation have become an important topics in the current scenario. This study took southern Anhui as an example, constructing comprehensive assessment models to conduct source identification from three perspectives, i.e. ecosystem services, ecological sensitivity and residents’ ecological needs. Landscape resistance surface was built based on the reciprocal of habitat quality and night-time light data. According to the circuit theory, the ecological process in the heterogeneous landscape was simulated to identify ecological corridors, extract pinch points and divide barriers that need improvement, thereby to construct the southern Anhui ecological security pattern (ESP). The pattern comprised 20 ecological sources, 37 ecological corridors, 9 pinch points and 2 levels of improvement areas. Specifically, ecological sources were mainly distributed within the area of Huangshan city and Xuancheng city, mostly covered with trees; ecological corridors were mostly located in the northern part of the research area; pinch points were mainly farmland or beside construction land; the primary improvement area was mainly in Chaohu city and Maanshan city, while the secondary improvement area was distributed around the primary area. The study discussed the diversified improvement strategies of different barriers and introduced the optimization scheme “one centre, two wings, one belt”, providing planning advice for decision-makers. The study expanded the construction of regional ESP, and partly guided the steady development of ESP of southern Anhui.
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