| dc.description.abstract | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through the establishment of the ASEAN Community in
2015 has formally entered a new milestone in its security perspectives, from solely focus on state-centered to
people-centered security. Previously, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1994 introduced the
people-centered approach to security, namely human security. The United Nations (UN) has emphasised that the
human security framework facilitates member states to handle widespread and cross-cutting challenges to the
survival, livelihood, and dignity of their people. Nevertheless, while ASEAN community concerns on peoplecentered
security,
it
has
not
made
any
reference
to
the
term
human
security
in
its
formal
documents.
The
purpose
of
this
paper
is
to
examine
the
ASEAN
version
of
people-centered
security,
whether
substantially
following
the
UN‘s
human
security or creating a new different version. This study applies process tracing analysis and found that
ASEAN develops its own version of people-centered security embraced by ASEAN Way as the governing value in
ASEAN. The study brings a new contribution to human security studies by proposing ASEAN version of human
security in addition to the UN, Japanese, Canadian, and the Europe Union approach to human security. | en_US |
