1st Edition

Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

By Alan Collins Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

ASEAN has declared its intention to create a security community in Southeast Asia that is people-orientated. This book evaluates ASEAN’s progress, and in doing so examines three matters of concern. The book firstly looks at the importance of constitutive norms to the workings of security communities, by identifying ASEAN’s constitutive norms and the extent to which they act as a help of... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Dependable expectations of peaceful change 3. ASEAN’s Constitutive Norms 4. Norm Entrepreneurs, Community Plans of Action and the ASEAN Charter 5. Human Rights 6. HIV/AIDS 7. Disaster Management 8. Conclusion

Biography

Alan Collins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, UK. His has written extensively on Southeast Asian security with a particular emphasis on non-traditional security, securitization and ASEAN.

Alan Collin’s book is a very timely, well argued and elegantly structured work on ASEAN’s nascent, people-oriented security community in Southeast Asia. A valuable book, particularly the innovative theoretical approach, which makes it a must read for anyone working on ASEAN, Regionalism, or Southeast Asian Studies.
- Alvin Almendrala Camba, SUNY, Binghamton