The ASEAN Regional Forum: Preparing for Preventive Diplomacy

Tay, Simon S. C.; Talib, Obood

doi:10.1355/cs19_3b

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“…However, from the very outset, assessments of the ARF have been shaped by questions over its usefulness and future direction (eg Leifer 1996;Lim 1998;Tan et al 2002). A key issue has been when and how the ARF would move beyond confidence building to preventive diplomacy, the second of the three stages of security co-operation envisaged in the 1995 ARF Concept Paper (for example, Tay and Talib 1997;Desker 2006). In the event, given the very diverse political outlooks of participant states and their different vulnerabilities, even defining preventive diplomacy proved a major challenge (Ball and Acharya 1999).…”

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The ASEAN Regional Forum: from dialogue to practical security cooperation?

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2009

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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This article examines to what extent the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) has moved beyond dialogue to practical security co-operation. Focusing on terrorism, maritime security and disaster relief as key areas of ARF activities in the past few years, the paper offers four arguments: first, while the ARF primarily remains a forum for regional security dialogues and confidence building, its participants have slowly become prepared to proceed with practical security co-operation, albeit only in limited ways. To the extent that desktop and field exercises take place under ARF auspices, most have been organized in the area of disaster relief. This implies, second, that for the most part ARF participants are still pursuing capacity building and operational security responses outside the Forum. Third, the ARF's cautious embrace of practical co-operation is not the outcome of ASEAN's exercise of diplomatic centrality but the result of initiatives pursued by a small group of ASEAN and some non-ASEAN states. Fourth, at least in the short term, any expectations that participants might organize significantly more demanding practical activities under ARF auspices are premature.

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The ASEAN Regional Forum: from dialogue to practical security cooperation?

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2009

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“…The ARF sees PD comprised of "negotiation, enquiry, mediation and conciliation... employed early in a dispute before violence has resulted." 39 One of the manifestations of PD has been the development of a code of conduct for the disputants in the South China Sea.…”

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