Published
2020-08-21

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Vilà Sánchez, E. (2020). Non-traditional Security in ASEAN: limits and opportunities. Análisis Jurídico - Político, 2(3), 205-228. https://doi.org/10.22490/26655489.3834
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Non-traditional Security in ASEAN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/26655489.3834
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Enric Vilà Sánchez UAB

Non-traditional security threats (NTS) has been included on ASEAN’s regional security agenda. Among these NTS threats, defined by transnational and non-military nature, we found transnational crimes, migrations, environment threats, infectious diseases, people smuggling or food shortages. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the relevance of non-traditional security threats in the international system. ASEAN reasserted
its commitment to NTS approach in 2015 with APSC Blueprint 2025 publication. This paper analyzes ASEAN’s non-traditional security agenda, including its background and principal effects. NTS inclusion on Security Community as recurrent practice is becoming a part of ASEAN’s identity.