Security Cooperation and Governance in Southeast Asia

Abstract

From 26-28 September 2006, Hawaii’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) and Singapore’s Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) co-hosted a conference in Singapore entitled “Security Cooperation and Governance in Southeast Asia: Responding to Terrorism, Insurgency, and Separatist Violence in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.” Attended by American and Southeast Asian academics, policymakers, and security practitioners, it assessed the current status and prospects for resolving Southeast Asia’s three primary security threats: separatism, insurgency, and terrorism. The patterns of political violence in these nation-states display many similarities. However, as they and their associated militant movements are generally dealt with separately, such similarities are frequently overlooked ...