n Conflict Trends - Peace in Africa : Towards a Collaborative Security Regime, edited by S. Field : book review

Abstract

From the League of Nations to the United Nations to the regionalisation of security, one has witnessed the trend from collective security to collaborative security mechanisms and structures. While the earlier approaches to security focused more on collective security and responses to inter-sate conflict and upheld the motto 'an attack on one is an attack on us all', the changing international context with the end of the Cold War and increased intra-state conflict ushered in the more cooperative response to security as embraced by the global trend of regionalism.