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Southeast Asian countries have traditionally relied on a variety of overlapping arrangements to guarantee their individual and common security. The security institutional equilibrium in Southeast Asia and beyond has consisted of formal and tacit bilateral alliances linking regional states to external players. These alliances are complemented by a series of multilateral arrangements adopting a more comprehensive and cooperative approach to security.2 Bilateral defense ties, primarily with the United States, have remained central to the regional strategic architecture. Coexisting with and complementing such bilateral links, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its region-wide initiatives have been at the core of the overlapping multilateral security structure. ASEAN has improved the climate of regional relations and contributed to conflict avoidance and management in Southeast Asia. Rejecting legal mechanisms, its model of security cooperation has traditionally relied on dialogue and consultation, the practices of self-restraint and consensus building, and the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the domestic affairs of other states.
The author wishes to thank Beverley Loke for her research assistance, Jonathan Chow for organizing the workshops, and the editors and other contributors for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this chapter.
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Emmers, R. (2008). Southeast Asia’s New Security Institutions. In: Aggarwal, V.K., Koo, M.G. (eds) Asia’s New Institutional Architecture. The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72389-9_7
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