วิทยาลัยป้องกันราชอาณาจักร, Capt. Abu Bakar Md Ajis RMN
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ABSTRACT
Title: ASEAN’s Theoretical Concept of Strategy in Regional Security Approach
Field: Strategy
Name: Captain Abu Bakar Md Ajis RMN Course: NDC Class: 56
This study embarks on a constructivist theoretical framework to understand
ASEAN’s strategy in managing regional security and its wider regional environment.
The study also theorise that ASEAN adopts the strategy formulation model of ends,
means and ways. Essentially, the study will focus on and identify what are the ASEAN
ways and means in managing regional security, using the constructivist approach.
It argues that the perpetual peace enjoyed by the region is due to ASEAN’s
constructivist approach of socialisation within norms; the theoretical concepts for
ASEAN’s strategy in regional security approach. This study further explores the norms
that shape the behaviour and conduct of member states and participants while socialising.
The constitutive norms provide the framework for regional security approach and
regulative norms decide how actors behave in conforming to the constitutive norms in
achieving regional security. This study further argues that institutions act both as agents
of socialisation and as regulative norms. This study concludes with the observation that
the constructivist approach better explains ASEAN’s strategy in regional security
approach in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. It has shown that the
higher the level of socialisation among actors the higher will be the level of cooperation
leading to a higher level of security and amity. The lack of war is the proof. The study
also found that the non-official approach, Track Two and Track Three, supplement the
official approach in managing security, due to its flexibility in addressing the strict
adherence to ASEAN’s constitutive norms. It is how these norms are being utilised that
provides the essence to the ASEAN ways and means. The thesis concludes that the
ASEAN Way will not wither away, even in the face of constant criticisms because its
benefits outweigh the shortcomings. The most significant empirical evidence is the
willingness of major powers, notably the US and China, to accede to ASEAN’s norms in
managing regional security.
