{"id":161,"date":"2012-06-26T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T08:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2020-04-19T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T03:59:49","slug":"wither-the-asean-security-community-some-reflections-johan-saravanamuttu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=161","title":{"rendered":"Wither The Asean Security Community? Some Reflections, by Johan Saravanamuttu."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 1, Inaugural (2005): 44\u201361.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper argues that a security community remains an object\u00a0rather than a reality among the Association of South East Asian\u00a0Nations (ASEAN) countries. This notwithstanding, ASEAN\u00a0institutions, processes and structures in the security regime have\u00a0multiplied manifold over its 38 years of existence. Theoretical work\u00a0on ASEAN suggests that a realist-institutional understanding of\u00a0ASEAN should now be supplanted by what could be called &#8220;statecentric constructivism&#8221;. However, the paper argues that such a\u00a0theoretical development fails to fully account for the political\u00a0construction of a security community based on some measure of\u00a0civil society engagement albeit in the highly state-driven ASEAN\u00a0formation. It is the understanding of this writer that the agency for\u00a0change emanating from civil society forces still remains generally\u00a0under-theorised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johan Saravanamuttu is professor of political science at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang where he served as Dean from 1994-1996. Thereafter in 1997 he was Visiting Chair in ASEAN and International Studies at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. His published works include the first major study of Malaysia\u2019s foreign policy (1983), ASEAN regional non-governmental organizations (1986), and the nexus between industrialization and the institutionalization of authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia (1991). His recent publications are: with Francis Loh, New Politics in Malaysia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003) and as guest editor, Global Change, Peace and Security, Special Issue: \u201cPolitical and Civil Islam in Southeast Asia\u201d, (Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2004). Since June 2003, Professor Saravanamuttu served as Dean of the Research Platform on Social Transformation at Universiti Sains Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/johan2.pdf\">Download full article (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 1, Inaugural (2005): 44\u201361. Abstract The paper argues that a security community remains an object\u00a0rather than a reality among the Association of South East Asian\u00a0Nations (ASEAN) countries. This notwithstanding, ASEAN\u00a0institutions, processes and structures in the security regime have\u00a0multiplied manifold over its 38 years of existence. 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