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Outline of Security Dilemmas of Southeast Asia
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Security Dilemmas of Southeast Asia
Referent object: state
Note: there appears to be a contrast between Acharya and Collins. Collins takes note of the peculiarities of Southeast Asia in an in-depth manner vis-à-vis Acharya, who tended to privilege the elite position.
1. Introduction: Evolution of the Security Dilemmaa. Offence-Defense Theory
i. Importance of certaintyb. Three Key requirements of security dilemma
i. Benign intent/illusory incompatibilityii. Uncertainty regarding their intent leads to misperception of threat
iii. Pursuit of paradoxical policies creats greater insecurity2. Third World Security: Security and Insecurity Dilemma
a. Problems within the stateb. Nation-building and state-making
i. Mohd Ayoob- security predicamentc. Insecurity dilemma
i. Ethnicityii. territory
3. Ethnic Tensions and the Security Dilemma in Southeast Asiaa. Ethnic tensions in Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia through perspectives of
ethnocratic regimes, self-determination and migrationi. Empirical data suggests incompatibility
4. ASEAN’s Security Dilemmaa.
5. ASEAN, the China Threat and the South China Sea Dispute6. Conclusion: Application and Mitigation
a. Security dilemma applied to SEA contexti. Relations between actors within states
ii. Is the SD omnipresent and inescapable?1. Realists- Yes2. Constructivist- perhaps, mostly dependent on inter-state-relations via
statesmen.iii. Examination of ethnic tensions show that SD cannot always be relevant to
understanding b. ASEAN Way contains elements of common security and security regime theory which
mitigates dilemma’s worst effects.