ASEAN's environmental challenges and non-traditional security cooperation: towards a regional peacekeeping force?

Abstract: "This article reflects on the prospect for an ASEAN peacekeeping force and regional security cooperation. I argue that progress on ‘soft’ security issues stands to facilitate a slow deepening of ‘hard’ security cooperation at the ASEAN level. Governments of ASEAN member states are still reluctant to develop a regional mechanism for conflict resolution, which they perceive to be a challenge to the norms of non-interference and state sovereignty. Yet, these norms are subject to dynamic shifts in the security environment that regional governments now have to manage. The establishment of mechanisms to address politically less controversial non-traditional security issues such as environmental challenges stands to further develop and consolidate military-to-military ties and deepen political trust among member states. An ASEAN standby force for emergency response and disaster relief has become a politically acceptable initiative and could set the stage for the development of an ASEAN pe

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies ; 7 (2014) 1 ; 5-20

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2014
Creator
Borchers, Henning

DOI
10.14764/10.ASEAS-2014.1-2
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-401647
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Borchers, Henning

Time of origin

  • 2014

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