ASEAN Standby Force: Taking Southeast Asia Security to the Next Level

Abstract

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is often viewed as an irrelevant regional organization that fails to live up to its charter and has no institutional teeth. This is due to the ASEAN way of pursuing consensus among member states that lack mutual trust and coherence. An ASEAN Standby Force (ASF) would be a medium for ASEAN nations to improve their relationships while simultaneously increasing ASEAN's collective capability to address security affairs. The ASF would initially begin as an on-call emergency response force for natural disasters, monitoring in support of conflict prevention, maritime observation, humanitarian assistance, and peace support operations. Subsequently, a more robust ASF with standing organizations could be employed in other scenarios including conflict resolution. This paper analyzes the utility and prospects of an ASF and provides recommendations for its development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA590240

Entities

People

  • Bharat Tientongdee

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • European Union
  • Governments
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • Natural Disasters
  • Security
  • Southeast Asia
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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