Fragmentation, Complexity and Cooperation: Understanding Southeast Asia's Maritime Security Governance

IF 2.2 4区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Contemporary Southeast Asia Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI:10.1355/cs44-1d

S. Edwards

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Abstract:Southeast Asia is beset by a host of maritime security threats including illegal fishing, piracy, smuggling and environmental crimes. Institutions responding to these issues have proliferated. This article systematically maps and demonstrates this new complexity and fragmentation using original empirical data. Focusing on blue crimes rather than territorial disputes, it argues that fragmentation, a non-hierarchical proliferation of arrangements, is a key driver of regional cooperation on maritime security, and that while conflict overlap and duplication are present between arrangements, the development of trust and collective identification between actors is having an overall positive effect on regional cooperation. The article further argues that this emerges from fragmentation in two ways. First, fragmentation creates more opportunities for sustained interaction, which can habituate cooperation due to the expanding web of meetings. Second, fragmentation, when well-managed, exposes an expanding set of actors to these trust-building processes. The article therefore provides new perspectives on regional dynamics and the state of cooperation in the field of maritime security.

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碎片化、复杂性与合作:理解东南亚海上安全治理

摘要:东南亚地区受到非法捕鱼、海盗、走私和环境犯罪等一系列海上安全威胁的困扰。应对这些问题的机构激增。本文使用原始的经验数据系统地描绘和展示了这种新的复杂性和碎片性。报告将重点放在蓝色犯罪而非领土争端上，认为碎片化，即安排的非等级化扩散，是区域海上安全合作的关键驱动因素，尽管安排之间存在冲突重叠和重复，但参与者之间信任和集体认同的发展对区域合作总体上具有积极影响。这篇文章进一步指出，这种分化以两种方式出现。首先，碎片化为持续互动创造了更多机会，由于会议网络的扩大，这种互动可以使合作习惯化。其次，如果管理得当，碎片化会使越来越多的参与者暴露在这些建立信任的过程中。因此，本文为区域动态和海上安全领域的合作状况提供了新的视角。

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute''s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia''s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The primary focus of the journal is on issues related to domestic politics in Southeast Asian countries, regional architecture and community building, military, strategic and security affairs, conflict zones and relations among the Great Powers. CSEA publishes authoritative, insightful and original contributions from scholars, think-tank analysts, journalists and policy-makers from across the globe. The Editorial Committee is guided by the advice of the International Advisory Committee which is composed of eminent scholars from Asia, the United States, Australia and Europe.