ASEAN CENTRALITY IN ASIA

PACIFIC REGIONAL SECURITY

COMPLEX
SULAIMAN SUJONO

THE DISCUSSION
Regional Security Complex
Security Architecture
Asia Pacific Security Architecture
ASEAN Centrality

SECURITY COMPLEX
A security complex is defined as a group of states
whose primary security concerns link together
sufficiently closely that their national securities
cannot realistically be considered apart from one
another (Buzan, 1983, 106)

SECURITY ARCHITECTURE?
scholars and practitioners of Asian security have
ended up using a common term to describe a
range of structures and processes related to
cooperative activity. (Tow, W.T. and Taylor, B., 2010)
However
There has been no commensurate body of work yet
offered that comprehensively defines or explains
security architecture theoretically or which
describes how that concept is generally applied to
Asian security politics.

TO MENTION SOME NAMES

Year Established

ASEAN
APEC
SCO
EAS
ARF
Six Party Talks
SAARC (South Asian
Association for
Regional Cooperation)

8 August 1967
November 1989
26 April 1996 (Shanghai 5)

14 December 2005
1994
August 2003
8 December 1985

ARCHITECTURE OVER THE YEAR

EAST ASIA REGIONALISM TREND

The trend, according to Ralf Emmers and See Seng
Tan, are:
The region accommodate a great variety of security
architectures, ranging from bilateral to multilateral
arrangements
An area in which one see the emergence of new
multilateral institutions since the end the Cold War
The intensity of the relationship between economic and
security particularly after the financial crisis
Existing institution in East Asia have taken new security role
since 9/11 and the 2002 Bali bombing

IMPLICATIONS OF THE ARCHITECTURE

To economy
To peace
To proliferation of WMD

ASEAN CENTRALITY
ASEAN
ASEAN is changing the traditional cognition towards the
ownership of power rebalancing strategy
ASEAN is changing the traditional understanding about how
countries seek to advance their interests East Asia
Economic Community ASEAN + 3
ASEAN is changing the traditional understanding about a
country that seeks security
ASEAN is changing the understanding of international norms
peaceful co-existence TAC

FUTURE PROSPECTS
In general, the existing architecture create a
condition of relative peace and development
How about the existence of new threat?

Epidemic
Natural disaster
Population displacement
Potential arms race?

THANK YOU!
ANY QUESTIONS?