英文摘要 |
This paper adopts a Neoclassical Realist view to examine the ASEAN and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). First of all, the process of enlargement of membership within ASEAN has not been proved smoothly. Secondly, it is immature to call ASEAN a security community, because its ''consensus'' norm has often been violated and the ''collective identity'' within ASEAN has not yet been well-constructed. Moreover, while the purpose of the so-called ''ASEAN Way'' is not to ''resolve'' the conflicts among the member-states, the ''management''of the conflicts can be symbolized as its typical style. Thirdly, the ARF has not yet developed itself into a collective security system. And it is only treated as a talk shop, because the great powers in the region such as the US, China and Japan, would not like to use this forum to solve the hotly-debated security issues such as North Korea's nuclear weapons. Fourthly, the threats from non-conventional security have increased recently in Southeast Asia. These threats include international terrorism, separatism, fragile democratization, international illegal immigration, the devastation of the environments and the exacerbation of climate such as global warming,…etc. Finally, this paper concludes that ASEAN's norm of noninterference and its practice of nonbinding consensus prevented deeper integration either within ASEAN or the wider East Asian region. As to the non-conventional security, the insistence of non-intervention in state sovereignty stops ASEAN states from further cooperation with each other. As a result, the threats from non-conventional security are highly conceivable in Southeast Asia. |