Human insecurities in southeast asia: Impediments to achieving a people-oriented asean

Abstract

In 2003, ASEAN issued the Bali Concord II. In this declaration, ASEAN pledged to create the ASEAN Community (AC). One of the AC’s goals is to address Southeast Asian human insecurities and eventually achieve a people-oriented ASEAN, manifested in the blueprints of the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). This chapter argues that a significant impediment to achieving a people-oriented ASEAN is the ASEAN Way, which ASEAN embedded in its roadmaps for the AC-building and AC-operating processes.