This book discusses a wide variety of security institutions, including NATO, the Western European Union, United Nations peacekeeping, the ASEAB Regional Forum, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. It describes changes in security institutions, documents the effects of such institutions on national policies, and explores the conditions that affect the patterns of co-operation.

• Introduction


• FUNCTION AND FORM OF SECURITY INSTITUTIONS.


• 1: Celeste Wallender and Robert O. Keohane: Risk, Threat and Security Institutions


• 2: Louise Richardson: The Concert of Europe and Security Management in the Nineteenth Century


• 3: Carsten Tams: Function and Form of a European Security and Defence Identity


• EFFECTS OF SECURITY INSTITUTIONS.


• 4: Christopher Gelpi: Alliances as Instruments of Intra-Allied Control


• 5: Christian Tuschoff: Alliance Cohesion and Peaceful Change in NATO


• 6: Helga Haftendorn: The `Quad': Unexpected Effects of an Obscure Institution


• 7: Ingo Peters: How Institutions Matter: The OSCE and German Foreign Policy


• CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN SECURITY INSTITUTIONS.


• 8: Christopher Daase: Spontaneous Institutions: The Dynamics of International Peacekeeping


• 9: Henning Riecke: US Non-Proliferation Campaigns and the Impact of Institutional Change


• 10: Alastair Iain Johnston: The Myth of ASEAN Way: Explaining the Evolution of the ASEAN Regional Forum


• Conclusion

Helga Haftendorn is University professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Free University of Berlin.
Robert O. Keohane is James B. Duke Professor of Military Science at Duke University. Celeste Wallender is an Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University.