Security Overview of the AsiaPacific

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific
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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Outline
• - Characteristics of the Security Environment
• - Regional Perspectives
• South East Asia
• North East Asia
• South Asia
• Oceania
• - Thematic Perspectives
• Persistent Flashpoints
• Transnational Threats
• - Wild Cards
• - Meeting the Future
• - Conclusion

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Overview Perspective
• Looking at Security
• in the Asia-Pacific
• from the Perspective of
• the Security Practitioner

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific
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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Characteristics of the Security Environment
• - Tremendous Diversity
• - Historical Animosities
• - Politically and Economically Dynamic
• - Relatively Benign

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Characteristics of the Security Environment
• - High Priority on Economic Development
• - Tension between Globalization
• and National Sovereignty
• - Anxiety over the Rise of China and the
• Future of U.S. China Relations

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives South East Asia

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives South East Asia
• - Overall Success of ASEAN
• - High Levels of Economic Integration
• and Socio-Economic Development
• Needed to Meet the Challenges of
• Transnational Threats and China/India

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives North East Asia

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives North East Asia
• - Major Power Relations in Perpetual Flux
• - Large Disparities in Political Systems
• and Economic Development
• - Limited Transnational Integration

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives South Asia

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives South Asia
• - Large Disparities in Demographics and
• Economies
• - Dynamic of Relations with Outside Major
• Powers (U.S.-China-Russia)
• - Looming Resource and Environmental
• Challenges

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives Oceania

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Regional Perspectives Oceania
• - Overall Success of Pacific Islands Forum
• - Concern over Environment especially
• Climate Change
• - Sensitivity to Transnational Threats

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Thematic Perspectives
• Persistent Flashpoints China-Taiwan

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Thematic Perspectives
• Persistent Flashpoints Korean Peninsula

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Thematic Perspectives
• Persistent Flashpoints India-Pakistan

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Thematic Perspectives
• Persistent Flashpoints Various Insurgencies

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Thematic Perspectives Transnational Threats
• - Terrorism and Transnational Crime
• - Environmental Degradation
• - Movements of People
• - Resource Competition

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Wild Cards
• The what ifs
• - Natural Disaster
• - Economic Crisis
• - Epidemic Disease

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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Meeting the Future

- Changing Security Environment
- Smaller region/world (globalization)
- Wider and faster spread of Information and
public awareness (IT revolution and 24hr media)
- Expanded Security challenges including
anti-terrorism and anti-crime (transnational
threats)
Events seem to happen faster
Leaders have less time to make decisions
Debate and critique is less private and more
public
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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Meeting the Future
• Succeeding in an Increasingly Complex Environment
  
• Characterized by Conflicting Trends

expansion of global media spread of public
information
rising urgency for governments to defeat any and
all security challenges
decreasing acceptance of failure and/or
instability
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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific

• Conclusion

- The Asia-Pacifics complexity, economic power,
political diversity, and strategic importance
are increasing every day
- The security dynamic is transnational in
nature, characterized both by common trends
across the region and individual
circumstances that make each member state
unique
- Yesterdays security strategies will not
adequately meet the challenges of tomorrow
- Security practitioners must cooperate across
the region maximizing their strengths toward
the common goal of a secure and stable
Asia-Pacific
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Security Overview of the Asia-Pacific