Beyond the Limits of Regional Security? The Story of East/Southeast Asian Regional Order.

Since the end of the Cold War, the new security threats and the broadened security agendas of actors has created a suitable atmosphere for rethinking and revitalizing the sphere and the limits of regional orders in the international politics. The relatively successful story of Western security identity and practices at home and abroad, and the European Union’s precedence intensified this trend by creating a kind of imagined criteria for the regional security orders. However, still the links between the global and regional security as well as the meaning of regional order are not yet clear. Though one can only observe what kind of security mechanisms (balancing, cooperation, competition, or conflict etc…) have dominated in the regional domain. Asian regional security order- if there is any- stands as a real test case for observing how kind of regional security order will rise from these plural and competing security mechanisms. In order to trace the possibility of regional security order outside of western world, this brief paper aims to evaluate the security regionalism in the Eastern/southeastern Asia and tries to make some assessments on question of whether the ARF or EAS has been close to represent Asian security order. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]