REGIONALIZATION TENDENCIES OF EUROPEAN SECURITY
REGIONALIZATION TENDENCIES OF EUROPEAN SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: The second half of the XX century witnessed for the first time the birth of a number of organizations that envisage security in their area of interest, the signing states jointly developing capabilities able to respond to an array of challenges brought forth by the participation in peace keeping operations, peace enforcement, conflict prevention and, more recently, post-conflict reconstruction operations, stability and transition and normalization of the economic and social life in the conflict affected areas. Although traditionally regional organizations appeared with the aim to reach a series of objectives of economic, politic or environmental nature, recent decades showed their clear implication in the field of security, these becoming extremely active, especially in cooperation with the United Nations in operations of the aforementioned types, carried out on almost all continents.

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