ASEAN's Role in the Development of Non-Traditional Regional Security

Rolls, Mark G.; Teh, Benny Cheng Guan

doi:10.1142/9789814566582_0012

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“…Rationalist institutionalist perspectives argue that regional mechanisms follow a functional demand for transboundary problem-solving (Caballero-Anthony, 2018; Rolls & Guan, 2014). Disasters often defy national boundaries, which renders national approaches ineffective.…”

Section: Research On Regional Hadr Mechanismsmentioning

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Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia

Spandler

2020

The Pacific Review

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ASEAN member states have invested substantially in cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). Despite broad support for the idea of 'localizing' HADR governance, the rise of regional agency has in practice led to uncertainty and frictions between humanitarian stakeholders. The article makes sense of these tensions by investigating the narratives through which intra-and extraregional agents construct the role of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre). Based on the assumption that narratives are central legitimating practices when new agents enter a governance arena, it analyzes textual material produced by different humanitarian organizations that operate in Southeast Asia, as well as interviews with representatives from these organizations. Their accounts of the AHA Centre's role can be grouped into four narratives that are bound up with competing ideas about regional humanitarian order: an affirmative one, a skeptical one, a critical one and a transformative one. The article thus rejects characterizations of regional HADR as a rationally designed 'architecture' and instead defines it as a deeply political arena where different conceptions of order are asserted, contested and negotiated.

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Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia

Spandler

2020

The Pacific Review

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“…In Southeast Asia, the challenges posed by globalization and regional integration have compelled ASEAN leaders to expand their security lexicon to cover a number of NTS issues that have been prevalent in the region. Various statements and declarations have been issued in recent years and cooperation in the area of transnational crime, infectious diseases, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and maritime security has increased (Rolls and Teh 2014). The preparedness of ASEAN countries to engage in NTS issues reflects Malaysia's acceptance of nontraditional security and its relevance to an interconnected and interdependent world (see Abdullah 2010).…”

Section: Human Security As a Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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“…The preparedness of ASEAN countries to engage in NTS issues reflects Malaysia's acceptance of nontraditional security and its relevance to an interconnected and interdependent world (see Abdullah 2010). Nevertheless, regional cooperation in NTS has remained largely a top-down endeavor with limited participation from civil society groups, while comprehensive security continues to take precedence (Rolls and Teh 2014).…”

Section: Human Security As a Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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Perceptions and Practice of Human Security in Malaysia

Teh

Ngu

2018

Human Security Norms in East Asia

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This paper discusses the understanding of human security in Malaysia. As the country prepares to achieve its vision of becoming a developed nation by 2020, exposure to the forces of globalization and integration into the international economy and the ASEAN community have on the one hand improved the economic standing of the country and its people while on the other hand exposed Malaysian society to a range of downside risks or threats that could undermine the past achievements of programs for human development. The paper covers three main areas. Firstly, we deliberate on the notion of human security from international and regional standpoints before explaining differential interpretations and understandings of the term at national and local levels. Secondly, we examine the multiple issues and threats viewed as imperative by various stakeholders. Thirdly, we identify some of the approaches taken in mitigating human insecurities and discuss the lack of measures in further improving the level of human security in the country. The term human security remains lodged at the periphery, and propelling it to the center will require a higher awareness level of its significance. Greater commitment from all stakeholders-particularly the government-is indispensable in order to prioritize policies that actually empower individuals and communities not only to free themselves of their insecurities but more importantly to enable them to live their lives in dignity.

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Like-Minded States: New Zealand–ASEAN Relations in the Changing Asia-Pacific Strategic Environment

Rolls

2019

The World of Small States

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ASEAN's Role in the Development of Non-Traditional Regional Security

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Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia

Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia

Perceptions and Practice of Human Security in Malaysia

Like-Minded States: New Zealand–ASEAN Relations in the Changing Asia-Pacific Strategic Environment

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