ABSTRACT Security discourse in contemporary times has brought to the fore the relevance of regions as indispensable loci for analysing, understanding and managing security challenges across many spaces of the globe. In the process of deepening this discursive analysis of regional security, scholars have developed a few concepts. Two of these analytical concepts are ‘security complexes’ and ‘regional security governance’. However, extant literature rarely examines the conceptual and empirical interplay between these two constructs. It is on this note that this article asks: how are security complexes and security governance impacting one another? To what extent could their pragmatic interactions shape the choice of regional organisations that will coordinate joint security undertakings? It argues that while it is the formation of security complexes from a trans-state perspective that will generate the necessity for regional security governance, the dissolution of such a complex equally demands an effective orchestration of regional security governance. The article also contends that the spatial scope of a trans-state security complex is a central factor for determining the appropriateness of the regional organisation that will coordinate its security governance project. It specifically draws on empirical evidence from West Africa to bolster these arguments.

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西非跨国家安全综合体与安全治理

摘要 当代的安全话语将区域作为分析、理解和管理全球许多空间安全挑战不可或缺的场所的相关性凸显出来。在深化这种对区域安全的话语分析的过程中，学者们发展了一些概念。其中两个分析概念是“安全综合体”和“区域安全治理”。然而，现存的文献很少考察这两种结构之间的概念和经验相互作用。正是在这个笔记上，这篇文章问：安全综合体和安全治理如何相互影响？他们的务实互动能在多大程度上影响协调联合安全事业的区域组织的选择？文章认为，虽然跨国家视角下安全综合体的形成将产生区域安全治理的必要性，但这种综合体的瓦解同样需要有效协调区域安全治理。文章还认为，跨国家安全综合体的空间范围是确定将协调其安全治理项目的区域组织适当性的核心因素。它特别利用来自西非的经验证据来支持这些论点。