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Transregional security cooperation after September 11, 2001

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The aim of this article is to answer the question what kind of global security architecture emerged after September 11 and what functions Europe, East Asia and the United States assumed in this triadic structure. The empirical findings reveal that the transpacific security cooperation is the strengthening link in this global security structure, the transatlantic security cooperation the weakening one and the Asia–Europe Security Cooperation is to be seen as the emerging link. In order to explain these different institutional manifestations of transregional cooperation, different theories of International Relations are applied to the three cases. It comes as no surprise that neoinstitutionalism and constructivism offer the best insights into the formation and development of international institutions.

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Notes

  1. Australia and New Zealand have also given unequivocal support for the United States, offering elite Special Air Service troops for the US' response to terrorism. For the first time since its inauguration in 1951, ANZUS, the security pact between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, invoked Article 4 to meet the danger (Dibb 2002: 131).

  2. See for example “Lower House OKs two-year extension of antiterror law,” in: The Japan Times, 4. October 2003; and Japan aktuell 1/2002, Ü 49.

  3. See “S. Korea outlines Iraq dispatch,” in: cnn.com, 19 June 2004 [http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/18/skorea.iraq/].

  4. ‘Certainly: every right corresponds with a duty. On the other way round, every alliance duty corresponds with a right, which means information and consultation’ (Bundesregierung 2001).

  5. See ‘UN must sanction Iraq strike,’ The Guardian, 31 July 2002.

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Loewen, H., Nabers, D. Transregional security cooperation after September 11, 2001. AEJ 3, 333–346 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-005-0007-5

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