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Security Cooperation (security + cooperation)

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Selected Abstracts

Explaining the Functional Expansion of a Regional Organization: The Case of Security Cooperation within APEC,

PACIFIC FOCUS, Issue 3 2008
Hyun Seok Yu
This study is an attempt to explain the functional expansion of Asia,Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to include the security issue. The hegemonic stability version of realist theory that emphasizes the role of the hegemon in the emergence and change of international institutions seems to provide a plausible explanation. The fundamental limitation of the power-based explanation to the transformation of APEC is that it tends to treat the hegemon's intention and outcome as the same and does not pay attention to the process in which the hegemon's intentions come to fruition. It is obvious that the intention of the hegemon is not in itself sufficient to produce the desired outcome. Thus, the power-based explanation leaves the very important process of transformation unexplained. This study focuses on the process in which other countries accept the agenda of the USA. Two ideational factors (connecting security and trade and the human security concept) played roles and the USA has been deeply involved in inventing and distributing these ideas. The USA has persuaded other member countries that security and economic issues are inseparable. Building up a logical connection between security and trade in effect contributed to a new way of understanding anti-terrorism issues by other member states. The introduction of the human security concept also contributed to the acceptance of security cooperation within APEC by member countries. Human security was much more easily accepted, even by skeptic members, than counter-terrorism because human security is less controversial and seems to be more concerned with the public good. This paper does not deny the role of the hegemon in the transformation of the regional organization. Instead, it wants to analyze the process in which the hegemon's intention is realized. In this process the abilities of the hegemon such as diplomatic practice, norm creation, and the ability to provide alternative ideas play an important role. [source]

The politics of Europe 2004: solidarity and integration

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 6 2005
Erik Jones
ABSTRACT The process of European integration has reached the limits of European solidarity,both within the member states and between them. Increasingly, Europeans are demonstrating reluctance to accept common rules, to recognise common values, to protect common interests, or to promote common objectives. Instead, Europeans appear to be expressing many different and yet interrelated forms of disaffection. Voter abstention is high, security cooperation is weak, economic confidence is low, and support for either European enlargement or institutional reform is vanishing. To respond to this crisis, European politicians need to manage expectations better, they need to accept responsibility for public policy problems, they need to explain the limits of what Europe can do, and they need to search for new formulas to meet different national challenges with common European institutions. [source]

Explaining the Functional Expansion of a Regional Organization: The Case of Security Cooperation within APEC,

PACIFIC FOCUS, Issue 3 2008
Hyun Seok Yu
This study is an attempt to explain the functional expansion of Asia,Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to include the security issue. The hegemonic stability version of realist theory that emphasizes the role of the hegemon in the emergence and change of international institutions seems to provide a plausible explanation. The fundamental limitation of the power-based explanation to the transformation of APEC is that it tends to treat the hegemon's intention and outcome as the same and does not pay attention to the process in which the hegemon's intentions come to fruition. It is obvious that the intention of the hegemon is not in itself sufficient to produce the desired outcome. Thus, the power-based explanation leaves the very important process of transformation unexplained. This study focuses on the process in which other countries accept the agenda of the USA. Two ideational factors (connecting security and trade and the human security concept) played roles and the USA has been deeply involved in inventing and distributing these ideas. The USA has persuaded other member countries that security and economic issues are inseparable. Building up a logical connection between security and trade in effect contributed to a new way of understanding anti-terrorism issues by other member states. The introduction of the human security concept also contributed to the acceptance of security cooperation within APEC by member countries. Human security was much more easily accepted, even by skeptic members, than counter-terrorism because human security is less controversial and seems to be more concerned with the public good. This paper does not deny the role of the hegemon in the transformation of the regional organization. Instead, it wants to analyze the process in which the hegemon's intention is realized. In this process the abilities of the hegemon such as diplomatic practice, norm creation, and the ability to provide alternative ideas play an important role. [source]

US and East Asian Security under the Obama Presidency: A Japanese Perspective

ASIAN ECONOMIC POLICY REVIEW, Issue 2 2009
Yoshihide SOEYA
F5; F59 The most important factor determining the structure of East Asia will continue to be the strategic relationship between the USA and China. It is the key component of the six party talks on the North Korean problem as well as nuclear nonproliferation. Japan is obviously a lesser strategic player, which is in a position to encourage middle-power security cooperation among the East Asian countries breathing between the USA and China. There is a conceptual, if not geopolitical, competition between Japan and China over an ideal future of East Asian regionalism, which the East Asian countries and the USA should join in a constructive manner. [source]