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6 Eur. Rev. Int'l Stud. 5 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/epnrvwo6 and id is 1 raw text is: Articles Premises, Policies and Multilateral Whitewashing of Broad Security Doctrines: A Southeast Asia-Based Critique of Non-traditional Security1 Delphine Alls Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE) Abstract: This article highlights the formulation of comprehensive conceptions of security in Indonesia, Malaysia and within the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), well before their academic conceptualisation. These security doctrines have been the basis of the consolidation of state and military apparatuses in the region. They tend to be overlooked by analyses praising the recent conversion of Southeast Asian political elites to the non-traditional security agenda. This latter development is perceived as a source of multilateral cooperation and a substitute for the hardly operationalisable concept of human security. However, in the region, non-traditional security proves to be a semantic evolution rather than a policy transformation. At the core of ASEAN's security narrative, it has provided a multilateral anointing of broad but not deepened conceptions of security, thus legitimising wide-ranging socio-political roles for the armed forces. Keywords: Southeast Asia; Non-traditional security; ASEAN; security studies Introduction The security concept has been among the most permeable to the conceptual and practical innovations that have renewed the practice and the study of international relations over the past two decades. Invigorated by a variety of critical approaches, the study of security has been structured, systemized, broadened, deepened, gendered, humanized, constructed, and privatized,2 with each new contribution inviting us to rethink its ontology, epistemology and methodology. As for the actors and reference objects of security policies, they have evolved under the combined influences of 1 The author wishes to thank Thierry Balzacq and Pascal Vennesson for their thoughtful comments on an earlier version of this paper. 2 Bourbeau P., Balzacq T. and Dunn-Cavelty M., International relations. Celebrating eclectic dynamism in security studies, in Bourbeau P. (eds.), Security. Dialogue across disciplines, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. 111. https://doi.org/1 0.3224/eris.v6il .01 ERIS Vol.6, Issue 1/2019, pp. 5-26

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