“…6. Empirical examples include the ASEAN (Acharya, 2005;Bellamy, 2004;Emmerson, 2005), the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) (Tow and Albinski, 2002), Southern Latin America (Derghoukassian, 2005;Flemes, 2005;Oelsner, 2003), the Middle East (Bilgin, 2004), the Mediterranean region (Adler and Crawford, 2002), the ECOWAS (Hammerstad, 2005) and the countries of the SADC (Ngoma, 2003).…”