Security Organizations in Evolving Global and Regional Orders

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The papers in this panel address how changing dynamics of competition and cooperation shape international order at several levels.
Pratt explains how shifts in power and increasing geopolitical competition—particularly between the US and China—generates less coordination and more conflict in international legal regimes. He finds increased legal fragmentation in a new dataset of multilateral treaties.
Hofmann considers how international security organizations differ from other multilateral actors in global governance. She provides a new typology to substantiate the design and functional differences which set security organizations apart from organizations in other policy domains.
Kinne shifts our focus from formal military alliances to a global network of bilateral defense cooperation agreements (DCAs). He underlines a problem for global order: dense clusters of DCAs enhance security but create free rider problems.
Cottiero examines how and when weak leaders balance against domestic threats through regional cooperation, particularly during the era of legal accountability for culpable heads of state. She emphasizes that vulnerable leaders cooperate through regional organizations partly to increase their tenure and post-tenure prospects.
With this collection of papers, we aim to bring the literatures of international organization and international security into more productive dialogue.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security

Individual Presentations

• Geopolitical Rivalry and Fragmentation in the International Legal Order - Tyler Pratt, Yale University

• Providing Security: Towards a Typology of Security Organizations - Stephanie Claudia Hofmann, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

• Burden Sharing, Defense Networks, and Security Communities - Brandon J. Kinne, University of California, Davis

• Cooperation in the Shadow of Future Crisis: Coup Risk and Regional Organizations - Christina Cottiero, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Chair

• Michaela Mattes UC-Berkeley

Discussant

• Paul Poast University of Chicago