Essay On Regional Security Complex Theory

Defense and security are generally prime concerns of states. The necessity of this concern does not only find eminence to states alone rather in this period of regionalization and integration but it becomes more pronounced among inter-state cycles as a result of interdependency. The adjacency of states makes it a real issue in regional politics as far as security is concerned. Theoretical foundations of ‘realpolitik’ become weakened by the likely effects of electoral management to neighbouring states, which in a way calls for considerations of reliance on enhanced foundations of institutions under neo-liberalism. The visible election management structural- functional weaknesses need adequate responses from a community of states to curtail the
Why security interdependence? Newman and Selm (2001) postulate a new rigour in understanding security as human security. They say human security is concerned with the protection of people from critical and life- threatening dangers, regardless of whether the threats are anthropogenic activities or natural events, whether they lie within or outside states, and whether they are direct or structural. It is “human- centred” in that its principal focus is on people both as individuals and as communal
In the perspective of Kenya’s 2007 electoral management and East Africa regional security, threats to security can emerge or may be rooted in the societies. In light of Kenya’s 2007 election aftermath, what is considered emerging is basically triggered from natural events. A close relationship lies between anthropogenic activities and security as well as natural events and