Regional peace and security coordination
The African Peace and Security Architecture links political decision-making, early warning, mediation, peace support, and regional mechanisms; it is not a continental intelligence agency.
- Membership
- African Union member states, Peace and Security Council, AU Commission, Regional Economic Communities and Regional Mechanisms, specialized missions, and partners.
- Primary customer
- Peace and Security Council, AU Assembly and Commission leadership, mediation and peace-support planners, and member states.
Regional consensus and sector cooperation
ASEAN security cooperation is a network of consensus-based political, defence, law-enforcement, maritime, cyber, and transnational-crime forums; it is not a centralized ASEAN intelligence agency.
- Membership
- Ten ASEAN member states, ASEAN Secretariat, ministerial and senior-official forums, ADMM/ADMM-Plus participants, law-enforcement and sector networks, and dialogue partners.
- Primary customer
- Member governments, ministers, senior officials, defence and security forums, and specialized working groups.
Regional crime and security coordination
A Caribbean Community implementation agency supporting regional crime, border, passenger-information, and security cooperation without replacing national police, customs, immigration, or intelligence authorities.
- Membership
- CARICOM member states and associated implementation partners.
- Primary customer
- Participating governments, border authorities, police, customs, and regional decision bodies.
Informal intelligence liaison
An informal European liaison architecture for domestic-security services and counterterrorism cooperation, governed primarily through voluntary participation, originator control, and member law rather than supranational command.
- Membership
- Participating national security services; membership and participation are not identical to EU or NATO membership.
- Primary customer
- National security-service leadership and authorized domestic counterterrorism customers.
Continental intelligence-service liaison framework
A continental liaison framework supporting intelligence-service exchange on terrorism, transnational organized crime, illicit finance, and related African Union peace-and-security priorities without replacing national authorities.
- Membership
- Participating African intelligence and security services; participation does not erase national mandates or legal limits.
- Primary customer
- Participating national intelligence and security services and authorized African Union peace-and-security decision bodies.
Financial-intelligence cooperation
The Egmont Group is a global network of national financial-intelligence units that supports secure information exchange, cooperation, training, and development; it does not itself investigate or prosecute national cases.
- Membership
- Member financial-intelligence units from jurisdictions worldwide, organized through governance, regional groups, working groups, and a secure exchange environment.
- Primary customer
- National FIUs are both participants and customers; authorized law-enforcement, regulatory, prosecutorial, and policy bodies may receive products through national channels.
Supranational analysis and law-enforcement coordination
The EU combines strategic intelligence analysis, military intelligence support, criminal-information exchange, judicial coordination, border risk analysis, sanctions expertise, and cyber cooperation across separate institutions; it does not have one federal European intelligence service.
- Membership
- EU member states and institutions, including EU INTCEN, EUMS Intelligence Directorate, Europol, Eurojust, Frontex risk analysis, EEAS, Commission services, and national liaison networks.
- Primary customer
- European Council, Council, High Representative, EEAS, Commission, national authorities, police, prosecutors, and operational coordination bodies.
Intelligence liaison framework
Five Eyes is a long-standing intelligence liaison framework among Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It is not a sovereign organization, public treaty-based super-agency, or substitute for national law and oversight.
- Membership
- Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States through their national agencies and liaison mechanisms.
- Primary customer
- National governments and authorized security, intelligence, defence, and law-enforcement customers.
Regional police and security liaison
A set of Gulf regional mechanisms for criminal, counterterrorism, border, and security cooperation that supplements rather than replaces national ministries, police, security services, and judicial authorities.
- Membership
- Gulf Cooperation Council member states.
- Primary customer
- National interior, security, police, border, and judicial authorities.
Maritime information-sharing hub
A maritime information-sharing and liaison hub that supports situational awareness among shipping, naval, coast-guard, and partner organizations without functioning as a universal command authority.
- Membership
- Singapore-hosted liaison participants and maritime-security partners.
- Primary customer
- National maritime agencies, navies, coast guards, and authorized shipping-security users.
Regional financial-intelligence and AML coordination
A regional FATF-style body supporting anti-money-laundering and counter-financing standards, mutual evaluations, technical assistance, and financial-intelligence development in West Africa.
- Membership
- West African participating states under ECOWAS-related institutional arrangements.
- Primary customer
- Governments, financial-intelligence units, regulators, justice authorities, and regional policy bodies.
International police cooperation
INTERPOL connects national police through National Central Bureaus, secure communications, databases, notices, and operational support; it is an intergovernmental police-cooperation organization, not a supranational police or intelligence agency.
- Membership
- 196 member countries, each with a National Central Bureau, together with the General Secretariat, General Assembly, Executive Committee, regional structures, and specialized networks.
- Primary customer
- National police and authorized law-enforcement authorities are the operational customers; governing bodies set organization-wide policy.
Maritime criminal-intelligence coordination
A multinational maritime coordination centre focused on transatlantic narcotics interdiction support, combining liaison, analysis, and operational coordination under participating national authority.
- Membership
- Participating European states and liaison partners under the centre’s agreements.
- Primary customer
- National police, customs, coast-guard, naval, and prosecutorial authorities.
Alliance intelligence coordination
NATO coordinates civil and military intelligence contributed by member states to support Alliance decision-making and operations; NATO does not replace national intelligence services or independently own all underlying collection.
- Membership
- NATO member states, national civilian and military intelligence representatives, International Staff, International Military Staff, committees, and NATO command structures.
- Primary customer
- North Atlantic Council, Military Committee, Secretary General, strategic commands, and authorized operational planners.
Hemispheric policy and technical cooperation
OAS security cooperation includes political dialogue, counterterrorism technical assistance, public-security cooperation, cyber capacity building, and legal frameworks; the OAS is not a hemispheric intelligence service.
- Membership
- OAS member states, Permanent Council and committees, Secretariat for Multidimensional Security, CICTE, public-security and cyber networks, and national authorities.
- Primary customer
- Member-state governments, OAS political bodies, national security and justice institutions, and technical implementers.
Regional strategic information fusion
A Pacific regional analytical and information-sharing initiative intended to support member governments on transnational and security issues while respecting national ownership and regional priorities.
- Membership
- Participating Pacific governments and regional partners.
- Primary customer
- Pacific national governments and authorized regional decision-makers.
Regional police and criminal-intelligence network
A Pacific police-led network and coordination structure supporting criminal-intelligence exchange and joint awareness across dispersed island jurisdictions.
- Membership
- Participating Pacific police services and coordination centres.
- Primary customer
- National police and authorized criminal-justice partners.
Collective small-state security cooperation
A treaty-based Eastern Caribbean security arrangement that pools defense, law-enforcement, disaster-response, and training capacity among small participating states.
- Membership
- Participating Eastern Caribbean states.
- Primary customer
- Member-state governments, police, defense, coast-guard, and emergency authorities.
Mission information, analysis, early-warning, and protection-support architecture
Mission-based information and analysis structures designed to support situational awareness, force protection, civilian protection, and mandate implementation without becoming a global clandestine service.
- Membership
- United Nations peace operations and contributing member states under mission mandates.
- Primary customer
- Mission leadership, authorized UN components, contributing states, and decision bodies according to mandate.
Multilateral security and sanctions
Security Council sanctions committees, monitoring teams, panels of experts, counterterrorism bodies, and peace-operation analytical functions support mandates created by member states; they are not a single global intelligence service.
- Membership
- Security Council members, UN-appointed experts, Secretariat support bodies, member states, and affected implementation partners vary by regime and mandate.
- Primary customer
- The Security Council and its committees are the principal political customers; member states and UN operations also consume reports and implementation guidance.
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