Regionalized Governance in the Global South – Policy Brief

Authors: Brooke Coe and Kathryn Nash

This policy brief is a derivative from Coe and Nash’s minibook, Regionalized Governance in the Global South (CUP 2023). The minbook explores the division of labour and concentration of authority amongst inter-governmental organisations (IGOs) in Latin America and Africa. It focuses on the policy domains of peace and security and human rights in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its central finding is that the extent of governance regionalization varies across regions and issue areas. In the domain of peace and security, governance is most regionalized in Africa. In the domain of human rights protection, governance is most regionalized in the LAC region. Given the phenomenon of regional specialization, the Element makes the case for the greater explanatory power of regional drivers of regional institutional development.

This policy brief summarises the minibook’s key findings for a wide audience. The full minibook is available open access through Cambridge University Press.

View the full minibook on the publisher’s website: Regionalized Governance in the Global South