Part III Headquarters Agreements, 38 Other Military Headquarters

Subject(s):

Military assistance — Military matters — Peace keeping

This chapter discusses military headquarters in the context of three key regions. These are: the African Union, the European Union, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In the first case, the very idea of Pan-African collective military cooperation is a newly developing norm—one that requires further improvements and academic study. Meanwhile, EU military operations have been planned and conducted according to rules and by structures established as the EU security policy was defined in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Finally, the CIS signed the Charter of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to implement military-related authority of the Organization.