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Part I. Introduction: Developing a Regional Approach to Global Security:1. Theories and histories about the structure of contemporary internationalsecurity; 2. Levels: distinguishing the regional from the global; 3. Securitycomplexes: a theory of regional security; Part II. Asia: 4. South Asia:inching towards internal and external transformation; 5. Northeast andsoutheast Asian security complexes during the Cold War; 6. The 1990s andbeyond: an emergent east Asian complex; Conclusion; Part III. The Middle Eastand Africa: Introduction; 7. The Middle East: a perennial conflict formation;8. Sub-saharan Africa: security dynamics in a setting of weak and failedstates; Conclusions; Part IV. The Americas: 9. North America: the solesuperpower and its surroundings; 10. South America: an under-conflictualanomaly?; Conclusion: scenarios for the RSCs of the Americas; Part V. TheEuropes: Introduction: 11. EU-Europe: the European Union and its 'nearabroad'; 12. The Balkans and Turkey; 13. The post-Soviet space: a regionalsecurity complex around Russia; Conclusion: scenarios for the europeansupercomplex; Part VI. Conclusions: 14. Regions and powers: summing up andlooking ahead; 15. Reflections on conceptualising international security.