International security governance is increasingly shaped by complex cooperation between actors on different scales: global (United Nations), regional (the EU, the African Union and other organizations), national (state governments) and local (community groups). While some policy-makers and academics have hailed multi-level cooperation as a way towards more effective responses to common challenges, it can also lead to competition and conflicts over authority and legitimacy. Even where the actors see each other as partners, they may have very different ideas about what constitutes appropriate security action. My research looks at various sites, such as peacekeeping in Darfur and humanitarian assistance in Southeast Asia, to gauge whether global and regional security actors manage to find common ground for cooperation and how they navigate their frictions.
Current working papers and publications can be found on the project page on ResearchGate.
In this video, I present my research on disaster relief cooperation in Southeast Asia.
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