This course introduces students to regional security orders, with particular emphasis on non-Western regional security organizations. While NATO (and the EU) are traditionally treated as a model of collective defense, the course focuses primarily on alternative security arrangements that have emerged across the large areas of the so-called Global South. Students will explore organizations such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the BRICS, analyzing how different historical experiences, political systems, and threat perceptions shape regional approaches to security “beyond the West”. The course highlights contrasts between militarized and non-militarized models, formal alliances and informal security communities, and state-centric versus regime-centric conceptions of security. Through comparative case studies, students will assess the effectiveness, limitations, and future prospects of regional security organizations in an increasingly multipolar and multi-order international system.
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Emilian Kavalski