Institutionalized Security Cooperation - Alliance Security Mechanisms - For Example, To Seato

Security Alliance, as one of the most common forms of institutionalized Security Regimes, has been the subject of this paper. In the beginning, the paper generalizes different approaches in this area of study including realistic, liberal and constructivist ones. By summing up all three kinds of perspectives of the establishment and extermination of an alliance, the paper gives out its own collective perspective on the issue. None of the three schools of security studies can paint a sound and comprehensive panorama. To test the liability of the assumption, the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is taken as the case of study in this paper. Starting with the analysis of the building of this alliance, the paper concludes that the realistic explanation cannot solve all the problems in the process and there are institutional and normal factors involved. The process of the institutionalization of the alliance can be better observed through this comprehensive lens. In the second part of the case study, the paper probes the history of the failure of this alliance and through the study comes out the result that same factors as have determined the success of the alliance attribute to its failure in the end. Hence, the cause of destruction lies in the cause of an alliance' s beginning. Only through a comprehensive lens can we get a complete explanatory picture of the rise and fall of SEATO and the power that pushes the institutionalization of the alliance.