Open AccessThe Effect of “Collective” Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) on Global Security
Author(s) -
Hae S. Kim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chinese journal of international review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2630-5321
pISSN - 2630-5313
DOI - 10.1142/s2630531318500063
Subject(s) - human security , national security , economic security , poverty , sovereignty , development economics , collectivism , international security , population , economic growth , food security , political science , unemployment , economics , economic system , politics , public administration , geography , individualism , sociology , agriculture , law , demography , archaeology
The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of “collective” regional intergovernmental organizations (RIGOs) on global security, national (traditional) and human (non-traditional), of the member states. A total of 12 RIGOs across 222 countries were selected. It has been argued whether the “collective” RIGOs, military or economic, regional or sub-regional, have been effective in enhancing the global security of their respective “individual” sovereign member states. The following 10 variables were chosen as human security: poverty, corruption, unemployment, global food security, income inequality, population growth, human development index (HDI), political freedom, quality of life, and economic freedom. For the national security variables, conflict, military expenditure, and global peace were selected. Based on factor analysis, two global security patterns were found: predominant and peripheral. RIGOs, despite their institutional collectivism, were found not to affect the predominant global security, while their effects on the peripheral global security were found to be spotty. In affecting global security, national or human, RIGO with its collectivism was found not to prevail over individual sovereign member states.