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SOUTHEAST ASIAN SECURITY: AN OVERVIEW
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Regional Outlook
- Article date:
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Singh, Daljit
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Southeast Asian security is shaped both by its external Asian environment and by dynamics within Southeast Asia. This essay deals briefly with each dimension in turn.
The region's external security environment is becoming more complex with the rise of new powers like China and India, a more assertive Russia, and their geo-political aspirations and military modernizations. Hence, even with the increasing economic inter-dependence and the cooperative security endeavours in the various ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) related forums, there is a degree of underlying fluidity and uncertainty about the longer term alignments of the major powers and their attitude towards Southeast ...