The ASEAN Political Security Community: Challenges and Prospect
نویسنده
چکیده
It has almost been a rule, whenever ASEAN Leaders gather in the resort town of Bali, Indonesia, there will be a major development to the regional organisation to watch out for. This year, the 19th ASEAN Summit will be held in Bali again. The clues for the hype this year are well reflected in Indonesia’s Chairmanship theme for ASEAN this year “ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations”, which is the advancement of ASEAN community building process one step further towards not only successfully building a community of its own, but also a community with a deserved place and role in the global community of nations. This paper examines the evolution of the ASEAN community and the prospects and challenges involved, in particular with regard to the political security community pillar.
منابع مشابه
DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION 1 The Role of Regional Organizations: Are Views Changing?
In the past few years, regional institutions in the Asia Pacific region seem to have engaged in an exercise in redefining their missions and adjusting to new circumstances and challenges. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have adopted the concept of a “security community”. The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) is shifting its focus from inter-state conflicts to transnational issues. T...
متن کاملFrom Asean to an East Asian Community? the Role of Functional Co-operation
At the 7 ASEAN Summit (November 2001) the leaders of the ASEAN countries were presented with the report of the East Asian Vision Group (EAVG). This report laid down a road map for future regional integration efforts across East Asia. Firmly prioritising economic, rather than political, integrative processes, the EAVG report placed a premium on functional co-operation to provide regional peace a...
متن کاملThe Depoliticisation and ‘ASEANisation’ of Counter-Terrorism Policies in South-East Asia
This article applies a modified version of the theoretical approach of the Copenhagen School to demonstrate that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has since 2001 reacted in a twofold way to the complex political obstacles to closer counter-terrorism co-operation: First, it has responded with securitising terrorism as a transnational crime and, second, with a depoliticisation an...
متن کاملAssessing Energy Security Using Indicator-Based Analysis: The Case of ASEAN Member Countries
Using indicator-based assessment, this study examines the energy security of nine Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries to see how it has evolved over the past 12 years and identifies a country-specific energy security context for each country. The assessment uses 42 energy security indicators, which can be separated into five components: overall energy balance, socio-...
متن کامل