The Lack of Security Cooperation between Southeast Asia and Japan: Yen Yes, Pax Nippon No

Asian Survey ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra R. Leavitt
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Strategic Culture ◽  
Security Cooperation

Common threats, mutually conducive goals, and institutional safeguards predict a significant security role for Japan in Southeast Asia. Yet, only recently has limited collaboration taken place. Often-cited explanations of collective memory and internal Japanese constraints are unfounded. Realism and strategic culture provide considerably more explanatory power.

scholarly journals Political Culture and State Behavior: Why Germany Confounds Neorealism

1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Duffield
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Strategic Culture ◽  
State Behavior ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
The Many ◽  
German Security Policy

During the past decade, a growing number of scholars have turned to cultural approaches to account for the foreign and security policies of states. Surprisingly, however, these scholars have devoted little attention to the concept that boasts the most venerable tradition in the field of political science, that of political culture, as a possible source of state behavior. This neglect is unjustified. Like other cultural variables, political culture promises to explain phenomena that are enigmatic from the perspective of leading noncultural theories, such as neorealism. Yet it applies to a broader range of cases than do the many alternative cultural concepts, such as strategic culture and organizational culture, that have been employed. I begin by describing an important puzzle in the international relations literature that suggests the need to consider culture as a variable: the failure of neorealism to predict German security policy after unification. I then assess the various cultural approaches used in recent years to explain state behavior. After noting the similarities in these approaches, I discuss the important differences that mark them and identify the reasons for the greater utility of political culture. Finally, I illustrate the explanatory power of the political culture approach by applying it to the case of German security policy since 1990.

scholarly journals Alasan Pembentukan Kerja Sama ASEAN-Australia dalam Menghadapi Isu Terorisme

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Ervina Fredayani ◽  
Jordan Aria Adibrata ◽  
Naufal Fikhri Khairi
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Security ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Terrorist Acts

Abstrak Saat ini isu terorisme di Kawasan Asia Tenggara menjadi hal yang cukup penting untuk diperbincangkan, kawasan ini menjadi wilayah yang berpotensi besar akan hadirnya tindak kekerasan terorisme. Kehadiran kelompok islam radikal di Asia Tenggara menjadi faktor utama maraknya ancaman teror yang belakangan ini dirasa cukup meresahkan dan menimbulkan ketakutan terhadap masyarakat sekitar. Adanya hal ini kemudian membuat negara – negara di Kawasan Asia Tenggara bersepakat untuk mengantisipasi penyebaran aksi terorisme dengan menjalin kerja sama dengan Australia. Adapun penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui alasan kerja sama keamanan yang dilakukan oleh ASEAN dengan Australia dalam menghadapi ancaman terorisme, khususnya di Kawasan Asia Tenggara. Penggunaan Konsep Kerja Sama Keamanan Internasional dan Konsep Motivasi Kerja Sama Internasional sebagai alat dalam menjelaskan fenomena yang dikaji. Pada penelitian ini penulis menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data, telaah pustaka, buku, artikel, jurnal, dan dokumen – dokumen lainnya untuk dapat menganalisa permasalahan tersebut. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat beberapa alasan kerja sama keamanan yang dijalin oleh ASEAN dan Australia, meliputi menjaga keamanan nasional dan perdamaian kawasan dari adanya aksi-aksi teror yang melibatkan organisasi-organisasi terorisme. Walaupun masih belum mencapai hasil yang diinginkan, kerja sama yang dijalin oleh ASEAN dan Australia ini diharapkan dapat semakin meningkatkan keamanan regional dari kedua belah pihak. Kata Kunci: ASEAN, Australia, Kerja Sama Terorisme   Abstract At this time the problem of terrorism in the Southeast Asian Region is quite important to discuss, this region is a region with great potential for the presence of acts of terrorism. The presence of radical Islamic groups in Southeast Asia has become a major factor in the emergence of terror threats, which lately is considered quite disturbing and frightening to surrounding communities. This existence then made the countries in the Southeast Asia Region agree to anticipate the spread of terrorist acts by establishing cooperation with Australia. This study aims to determine the reasons for security cooperation undertaken by ASEAN and Australia in dealing with the threat of terrorism, particularly in the Southeast Asian Region. The use of the Concept of International Security Cooperation and the Concept of Motivation for International Cooperation as tools in explaining the phenomenon under study. In this study the authors used qualitative research methods with data collection techniques, literature reviews, books, articles, journals, and other documents to be able to analyze the problem. The results of this study reveal several reasons for the security cooperation established by ASEAN and Australia, including national security and regional peace from acts of terror involving terrorist organizations. Although it has not yet achieved the desired results, the cooperation carried out by ASEAN and Australia is expected to increase regional security from both parties. Keyword: ASEAN, Australia, Terrorism Cooperatio

The Common Security and Defence Policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Hyde-Price
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Culture ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
Member States ◽  
Military Capability ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Strategic Context

Since the late 1990s, EU member states have committed themselves to deeper and more structured military cooperation, within the framework of the ESDP/CSDP. At the same time, European defence budgets have shrunk and military capabilities reduced. This chapter analyses the evolution of European military cooperation and identifies its key drivers and the changing strategic context to Europe’s east and south. The chapter argues that the emergence of a credible EU military capability will depend both on developing new defence synergies and on investment in critical military capabilities and infrastructure. Above all, however, it requires greater political cohesion and a common European strategic culture. Elements of a shared strategic culture have emerged, but substantial differences remain among EU member states. The chapter concludes by highlighting the crucial role of Europe’s major states in fostering defence and security cooperation, particularly the UK, France, and Germany.

From Parkman to Pearson: Historical context and the transformation of Quebec’s strategic culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-575
Author(s):  
David G. Haglund ◽  
Stéphane Roussel
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
New France ◽  
Strategic Culture ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
Francis Parkman ◽  
Contemporary Reality

“Strategic culture” is one of those conceptual bridges that link history with political science because, among other reasons, it reminds us of the hold that memories of past events can continue to exercise upon contemporary reality. But those memories are always subjective, sometimes downplayed to the point of nearly being forgotten altogether, at other times so overstated as to yield a highly distorted sense of the past and of its relationship to the present. This article constitutes a revisitation of contemporary Quebec strategic culture, from the perspective of historical memory. That strategic culture has of late been so strongly stamped with the impress of a “Pearsonian internationalism” that it becomes easy for analysts to confuse it with “pacifism.” Yet it has also been a strategic culture that stems from a great deal of historical amnesia. What has been effaced from the collective memory is the long period in which war was endemic in New France—the period that gives the lie to the notion of Quebeckers somehow being a “pacifistic” folk. This was the sanguinary era upon which the historian Francis Parkman focused such a large share of his prodigious intellectual energies. Only the closing act of this era seems to have escaped erasure from Quebec’s collective memory. Indeed, that act, which took place on the Plains of Abraham, has been “remembered” only too well. So well has it been recollected, in fact, that it has fostered within Quebec society the unshakable conviction that, for Quebeckers, war must always be a risky undertaking susceptible of leading to catastrophe.

scholarly journals Maritime security cooperation within the ASEAN institutional framework: a gradual shift towards practical cooperation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gusti Bagus Dharma Agastia
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Asean Regional Forum ◽  
Organisational Design ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Practical Security

How does ASEAN fare in addressing maritime security problems? This paper examines the shifting character of maritime security cooperation in Southeast Asia. In doing so, this paper looks at the outcomes of three maritime security-oriented fora that exist within the ASEAN regional framework: the ASEAN Regional Forum, the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Maritime Forum. By compiling and analysing data on the forms and frequency of existing cooperative activities from 2003 gathered from publicly available sources, this paper finds that maritime security cooperation among ASEAN members continue to be largely dialogue-based, with few instances of practical cooperation. By comparing the three fora, this paper argues that the organisational design of these forums tends to affect the forms of cooperation. This paper concludes that despite ASEAN showing progress in adopting practical security cooperation, there remain hurdles in achieving regional maritime security.

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