Negotiating Governance on Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Mely Caballero-Anthony

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780231544498
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The threats the world currently faces extend beyond traditional problems such as major power competition, interstate conflict, and nuclear proliferation. Non-traditional security challenges such as climate change, migration, and natural disasters surpass states' capacity to address them. These limitations have led to the proliferation of other actors—regional and international organizations, transnational networks, local and international nongovernmental organizations—that fill the gaps when states' responses are lacking and provide security in places where there is none.

In this book, Mely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. Referencing the wide range of transborder security threats confronting Asia today, she analyzes how non-state actors are taking on the roles of "security governors," engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address multifaceted problems. From controlling the spread of pandemics and transboundary pollution, to managing irregular migration and providing relief and assistance during humanitarian crises, Caballero-Anthony explains how and why non-state actors have become crucial across multiple levels—local, national, and regional—and how they are challenging regional norms and reshaping security governance. Combining theoretical discussions on securitization and governance with a detailed and policy-oriented analysis of important recent developments, Negotiating Governance on Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia and Beyond points us toward "state-plus" governance, where a multiplicity of actors form the building blocks for multilateral cooperative security processes to meet future global challenges.

Notes

1. Security Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond

1. ASEAN was established in August 1967. Regarded as one of the most successful regional organizations in the world, it is a significant actor in managing regional security in East Asia.

2. United Nations General Assembly, “In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All” (A/59/2005, March 21, 2005).

3. Deborah D. Avant, Martha Finnemore, and Susan K. Sell, eds., Who Governs the Globe? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 2.

4. Robert Keohane, International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989).

5. See Michael J. Green and Bates Gill, eds., Asia’s New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 12.

6. Cited in See Seng Tan, introduction to Do Institutions Matter? Regional Institutions and Regionalism in East Asia, ed. See Seng Tan (Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2008), 1.

7. Barry Buzan, Ole Waever, and Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1998), 2.

8. Barry Buzan, People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era, 2nd ed. (Hemel Hempstead, U.K.: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991), 131.

9. Graeme Cheeseman, “Asia-Pacific Security Discourse in the Wake of the Asian Economic Crisis,” Pacific Review 12, no. 3 (1999): 336.

10. Alexis McGinnes, “The Human Face of the Asian Financial Crisis in Malaysia and Indonesia,” Swords and Ploughshares: A Journal of International Affairs (Spring 2003): 45–58.

11. Ralf Emmers and John Ravenhill, “The Asian and Global Financial Crises: Consequences for East Asian Regionalism” (working paper, Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2010), 3; and Joseph Y. S. Cheng, “Broadening the Concept of Security in East and Southeast Asia: The Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis and the September 11 Incident,” Journal of Contemporary China 15, no. 46 (2006): 92. See also Mely Caballero-Anthony, “Revisioning Human Security in Southeast Asia,” Asian Perspective 28, no. 3 (2006): 155–89.

12. See also Denis Hew, “Economic Integration in East Asia: An ASEAN Perspective” (Madrid: Research Unit on International Security and Cooperation, University of Madrid, 2006), 55–56.

13. Mely Caballero-Anthony, “SARS in Asia: Crisis, Vulnerabilities, and Regional Responses,” Asian Survey 45, no. 3 (2005): 475–95.

14. Elke Krahmann, “Conceptualizing Security Governance,” Cooperation and Conflict: Journal of the Nordic International Studies Association 38, no. 1 (2003): 16.

15. Buzan, Waever, and de Wilde, Security; and Avant, Finnemore, and Sell, Who Governs the Globe?

16. Arnold Wolfers, “ ‘National Security’ as an Ambiguous Symbol,” Political Science Quarterly 67, no. 4 (1952): 485, cited in David A. Baldwin, “The Concept of Security,” Review of International Studies 23, no. 1 (1997): 13.

17. Buzan, Waever, and de Wilde, Security, 2. For a detailed discussion on different understandings of security, see Steve Smith, “The Contested Concept of Security,” in Critical Security Studies and World Politics, ed. Ken Booth (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2005). See also Mely Caballero-Anthony, ed., An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies: A Transnational Approach (London: Sage, 2016).

18. Buzan, People, States and Fear. The 1983 edition is titled People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations, published by the Copenhagen School of Security Studies.

19. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 1994 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

20. See Mely Caballero-Anthony and Alistair Cook, eds., Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Issues, Challenges and Frameworks for Action (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013).

21. Tsuneo Akaha, “Non-Traditional Security Cooperation for Regionalism in Northeast Asia,” in Broadening Asia’s Security Discourse and Agenda: Political and Environmental Perspectives, ed. Ramesh Thakur and Edward Newman (Tokyo: United Nations University, 2004), 306–39.

22. See Caballero-Anthony and Cook, Non-Traditional Security in Asia.

23. Andrew Jacobs, “Typhoon Response Highlights Weaknesses in Philippine Military,” New York Times, November 19, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/world/asia/typhoon-response-highlights-weaknesses-in-philippine-military.html?pagewanted=all.

24. Melissa Leach, “The Ebola Crisis and Post-2015 Development,” Journal of International Development 27, n...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• I. Security Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond
• II. State and Non-State Actors and NTS Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond
• III. Governance of Health Security
• IV. Governance of Environmental Security
• V. Governance of Migration
• VI. Governance of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations
• VII. Governance of Nuclear Energy
• VIII. Governance of Food Security
• Conclusion: Building Security Governance in Times of Turbulence and Uncertainty
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index