Policy Brief Series Issue 6, March 2012
Rise of the East, Decline of the West? Global Security Governance in Transition Jochen Prantl1
Key Points
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The global security order is at a critical juncture. Power shifts have led to a new diffusion of principles, preferences, and strategies, with deep implications for global governance.
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There is no one-size-fits-all strategy to achieve global security governance.
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Emerging countries have three basic choices: first, they can directly confront Western liberal security ordering; second, they can contest existing governance frameworks by constructing institutional alternatives; and third, they can assume the role of responsible stakeholders and mediate between entrenched positions of the Global North and South.
The author is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. This policy brief draws on work for a background paper for the Human Development Report 2012, commissioned by the UN Human Development Report Office. The opinions contained within this brief are those of the author alone.