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To the states of Southeast Asia, national security has always been a game played within two arenas. The internal security dimension has been the prerogative of the state, and the external security dimension has been subject to the involvement of external powers and the institutional peace emergent from the creation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1967. In both arenas, military power has been an important variable for ordering the political realm and securing stability. The Asian financial crisis of 1997/1998 slightly shifted the state- and military-centric view, and altered the threat perceptions and the responsive and cooperative understandings of the states in the region. First, the crisis demonstrated Southeast Asia’s dependency on external actors and the need to create intraregional structures to supplement the international institutions. Second, the crisis accounted for the fall of the Indonesian and Thai governments and, hence, questioned the utility of the traditional concept of security along the lines of military power for state survival.1
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Maier-Knapp, N. (2012). The EU and Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia. In: Novotny, D., Portela, C. (eds) EU-ASEAN Relations in the 21st Century. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137007506_3
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