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APSC and Security
integration
Presented by Rejane Torrecampo (2014)
Research Question
● How will the APSC contribute to peace and
security in the region?
Objectives
● To present a short history of regional efforts
to achieve and maintain peace and security
in Southeast Asia
● To discuss the goals of the ASEAN Political-
Security Community
● To identify the possible success and
contribution of the APSC to regional peace
Short History
● Baguio Conference
● Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
● Association of Southeast Asia
● MAPHILINDO
● Association of Southeast Asian Nationso Remains to be the primary regional organization in
SEA
ASEAN Vision
● A prosperous and peaceful concert of
Southeast Asian Nations
● To achieve peace and stability among
Member States and beyond the region
● An economically competitive bonded in a
common and shared identity to achieve
further peace and stability
APSC
● ASEAN Concord I
● ASEAN Vision 2020
● Bali Concord II
● Cebu Declaration
● APSC Blueprint
APSC Goals
● A rules-based community ofshared values
and normso To strengthen democracy, enhance good
governance and the rule of law, and to promote
human rights and fundamental freedoms, with due
regard to the rights and responsibilities of the
Member States of ASEAN
APSC Goals
● A cohesive, peaceful and resilent region with
shared responsibility for comprehensive
securityo Takes into account non-traditional aspects vital to
regional and national resilience
APSC Goals
● A dynamic and outward looking region in an
increasingly integrated and interdependent
worldo To maintain friendly and mutually beneficial relations
with external parties to ensure that the peoples and
member states of ASEAN live in peace with the
world at large
Community
"A regional security community, in order to
ensure that it remains free of violent intra-mural
conflicts, must also manage is relations with
extra regional actors, including the major
powers, with a view to preventing any conflict-
causing or destabilizing effect of the later on
the community" (Acharya, 2001)
Asia-Pacific Security
and the role of ARF
Presented by Rejane Torrecampo (2014)
● How effective is the ARF in contributing to
peace and security in Asia-Pacific?
Research Question
Objectives
● To present the origin of the ARF
● To discuss the evolutionary approach of the
ARF
● To identify the current efforts of the ARF in
contributing to peace and stability in the region
● To map the on-going debate as the
effectiveness and viability of the ARF
Significance of the Study
● International relations is evolving, and power
center is changing
● Multilateralism is now the preferred security
arrangement at the end of the Cold War
period
● ARF is the premier security forum in Asia-
Pacific
Origin of ARF
● International Situationo “with the end of the Cold War...there were also
concerns that the changes this would bring to the
global balance of power would adversely affect
regional security” (Kingsford, 2012)
o the capacity to handle “regional not merely bilateral
and sub-regional issues” (Ortuoste, 2011)
Origin of ARF
● International Situationo “To prevent a regional ‘power vacuum’ and a re-
balancing of power, it was deemed important to
establish an alternative security arrangement- one
that would be able to handle the existing and
emerging complexity in the Asia-Pacific” (Ortuoste,
2011)
Origin of ARF
“One strand of theory, neorealism, argues that
multipolar systems tend to be more prone to war
than bipolar systems. having only two main actors
holding each other in check allows for simpler and
more predictable pattern of aaliances and
interactions, wheres a multipolar environment
would be more complex and choatic” (Acharya,
2011)
Origin of ARF
● Powershifto “the potential threat to regional security from these
shifts in power, [that is, US was drawing down its
forces in the region while China was increasing its
activity in the South China Sea,] coupled with
ASEAN’s reticence to discuss security issues, was
the catalyst for the creation of...the ARF” (Kingsford,
2012)
Origin of ARF
● Powershifto “the combination of apparently rising Chinese power
and a reduced commitment to the region on the part
of the United States had a galvanizing impact on the
Southeast Asian states, especially as they fretted
about the implications that China’s military
modernization might have on the resolution of
sensitive security issues in the region” (Beeson,
2009)
Origin of ARF
● Role of small and medium size powerso “China’s growing strategic threat and Southeast
Asia’s limited ability to counter it is widely seen as
providing one of the most important drivers behind
the establishment of the ARF” (Beeson, 2009)
Evolutionary Approach
● ARF Concept Paper
o Promotion of Confidence-Building Measures
o Development of Preventive Diplomacy Mechanisms
o Development of Conflict-Resolution Mechanisms
● Incrementalism is central to the ARF
● Existing Security issues in the region cannot be possibly
addressed by a young forum like the ARF
● to develop a more predictable and constructive pattern
of relations for the Asia-Pacific
Evolutionary Approach
● Confidence-buildingo to ensure a common understanding and approach to
interstate relations in the region
o to foster respect, trust and confidence among its
members
o Annual senior officials’ and ministers’ meeting
Evolutionary Approach
● Preventive Diplomacyconsensual diplomatic and political action taken by sovereign states with
the consent of all directly involved parties:
o To help prevent disputes and conflicts from arising between States
that could potentially pose a threat to regional peace and stability;
o To help prevent such disputes and conflicts from escalating into
armed confrontation; and
o To help minimise the impact of such disputes and conflicts on the
region
(Concepts and Principles of Preventive Diplomacy, adopted at the 8th ARF, 2011)
Evolutionary Approach
● Conflict Resolutiono “it is not envisaged that the ARF would establish
mechanisms [for] conflict resolution in the immediate
future. The establishment of such mechanisms is an
eventual goal that ARF participants should pursue
as they proceed to develop the ARF as a vehicle for
promoting regional peace and stability” (ARF
concept Paper)
Current Efforts● Traditional Security
o national security-focused on the military defence of the
State’s sovereignty and territorial integrity against
external aggression
● Non-traditional Securityo human security-capability in satisfying one’s basic needs
and where the institutions are obliged to provide
protection and ensure their survival
o transnational security-securing beyond military defence
of the national borders
Current Efforts
● Traditional Securityo Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea and East
Asia
o Residue of the Cold War: Korean Peninsula and
Taiwan Strait
Current Efforts
Territorial
Disputes in the
South China Sea
Current Efforts
● South China Seao five ARF members (China, Philippines, Brunei
Darussalam, Malaysia, Vietnam) and Taiwan have
overlapping claims that have escalated to violence
o China’s argument is that it would rely on bilateral
and multilateral relationships with the countries
directly involved rather than through the ARF
o Consensus building is applied in this case
Current Efforts
● South China seao Security issues
Drives competition with each other rather than
cooperation
SCS is rich in various kinds of mineral resources
and is an important fishing ground
Freedom of navigation
Current Efforts
"With the four of its [ASEAN] member states
being claimants, and the others having varying
degrees of political, diplomatic, and economic
closeness to China and the US, the potential of
ASEAN's ability to contribute to the settlement
of the SCS disputes remains to be seen"
(Kingah, et. al, 2012)
Current Efforts
● South China Sea
"for the next 20 years, the South China Sea will
probably remain the ‘worst-case’ threat to
peace and security in the region” (Acharya,
2011)
Current Efforts
● Non-traditional securityo Terrorism
o Maritime Piracy
o Human rights (trafficking)
o Environmental degradation
Debates
“the principle ASEAN centrality implies that
ASEAN must keep its seat at the ‘driver’ stable
of the most important existing Asian regional
institutions, especially the ARF” (Acharya,
2011)
Debates
Other authors question the effectiveness of
ASEAN centrality wherein its principles and
norms are applied
opportunities
Will remain as the premier security form in Asia
PAcific and the only forum to possibly evolve
into a security institution
Platform to discuss non-traidtional security
issues