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Vo1. 39 No. 1, January/February 2021
[Keywords] Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism, non-traditional security,
security governance, fragmentation model, platform model
[Author] LI Zhifei, Associate Research Fellow, Ph.D., National Institute of
International Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, 100007).

120 Making the Best of New Opportunities: The ASEAN Path to Resolving
Non-traditional Security Dilemma
FAN Jiarui
[Abstract] Is there a non-traditional security dilemma? Why does this security
dilemma arise? Can the ASEAN-centered regional cooperation in East Asia resolve
it? Previous studies tend to divide States’ behavioral logic into traditional and
non-traditional security perspectives, explaining the former with the security
dilemma theory whereas interpreting the latter via the lenses of securitization and
peace-cooperativism with the belief that the latter is easier to lead to international
cooperation. The COVID-19 pandemic is a typical non-traditional security crisis.
However, countries of the world have failed to jointly confront the pandemic,
witnessing aggravated confrontation rather than effective cooperation. This paper
regards this anomalous case as a non-traditional security dilemma and views the
uncertain policies and behavioral intentions of different countries as its main cause.
After the Cold War, the ASEAN-centered regional cooperation framework has made
the best of any opportunities when handling non-traditional security issues.
Therefore, it has helped enhance common understanding of security threats,
consolidate common interests by virtue of the existing regional cooperation regime
and establish a “threat-interest” transformation mechanism to increase the certainty
of policies and behavioral intentions. All of the efforts have contributed to possible
resolutions to non-traditional security dilemmas. This paper cites the Special
ASEAN, China, Japan and ROK (ASEAN plus Three) Summit on COVID-19
Response convened on April 24, 2020 as an example. Although the consensus on
security interests among the above-mentioned countries still needs to be
strengthened, a common understanding of security threats has been formed, which
can be perceived as a positive regional manifestation of how to resolve the current
global non-traditional security dilemma against the backdrop of COVID-19.
[Keywords] non-traditional security dilemma, uncertainty, COVID-19, ASEAN
path
[Author] FAN Jiarui, Ph.D. Candidate at School of International Studies, Peking
University (Beijing, 100871).

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