The Southeast Asian Security Complex

This paper applies the idea of security complexes to the study of regional security in Southeast Asia. First, the idea of security complexes is introduced, followed by a sketch of the pattern of security relations withm the Southeast Asian complex, and also sets that pattern into the broader context both of the other local security complexes in Asia, and of the global pattern of great power rivalries. The paper concludes by Jinking together the patterns of security at the globaJ and local levels, with some consideration given to the continuity and change in the structure of the Southeast Asian complex.