Major Powers as ASEAN Dialogue

Partners and Potential Contributions to

Maritime Security
Emeritus Professor Carlyle A. Thayer
Presentation to
Vietnam-Australia 1.5 Track Defence Dialogue
Hanoi, May 18, 2017
 What is the Geographic Scope
of ASEANs Maritime Domain?
Article 1
(a) "Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone", hereinafter referred to as the "Zone",
means the area comprising the territories of all States in Southeast Asia, namely, Brunei
Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam, and their respective continental shelves and Exclusive Economic
Zones (EEZ);
(b) "territory" means the land territory, internal waters, territorial sea, archipelagic
waters, the seabed and the sub-soil thereof and the airspace above them
Article 2
This Treaty and its Protocol shall apply to the territories, continental selves, and EEZ of
the States Parties within the Zone in which the Treaty is in force [emphasis added].
Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone 1995
Include geographic scope in new regional Treaty of Amity and Cooperation
Maritime Zones in Southeast Asia
1. Western littoral
2. Indonesia-Timor
Leste-PNG littoral
4
1
5 3. Sulu and Celebes Sea
7
4. Eastern littoral

3
5. South China Sea
6 6. Straits of Malacca
2 and Singapore
7. Gulf of Thailand
2
 Southeast Asias Sea
Lines of
Communication
-ASEAN Community
means increased
importance of trade
and security of sea
lanes
 2 What is a Maritime Community?
A sub-set of a larger security community comprised of a group of states
that
regularly interact with each other
attained a sense of community (we-feeling or togetherness) or
collective identity
adopted formal or informal norms, institutions, and practices
become integrated economically, politically etc.
hold dependable expectations of peaceful change
rule out the use of force to solve disputes
 ASEANs Policy Framework
for Maritime Community Building
ASEAN Community Dialogue Partners
ASEAN Community 2015 ASEAN Regional Forum
Inter-Sessional Meeting on
ASEAN Political-Security Maritime Security
Community Council
East Asia Summit
ASEAN Defence Ministers ADMM-Plus
Meeting (ADMM) Expert Working Group on
ASEAN Charter Maritime Security
ASEAN Maritime Forum Expanded ASEAN Maritime
Forum
Track 1.5
 Activities of ASEAN Navies
ASEAN Naval Interaction (2001-2010)
ASEAN Chiefs of Navy Meeting [ACNM] (2011-2017) - annual
ASEAN Navy Young Officers Interaction
Agreed Greeting and Communication Procedures
ASEAN Maritime Security Information Sharing Exercise (AMSISX)
ACNM Secretariat
ASEAN Maritime Security Exercise
ASEAN Counter-Terrorism Exercise
 Activities of ASEAN Navies
ASEAN Militaries HA/DR and Military Medicine Exercise (AHMX)
Development of an ANCM-Plus process with Dialogue Partners
ASEAN Navies Two-Year Action Plans
ASEAN Navies HA/DR Standard Operating Procedures
ASEAN Navies Roadmap
ASEAN Multilateral Naval Exercise Standard Operating Procedure
(AMNEX SOP) Working Group
International Fleet Review 2017
ASEAN Navies Multilateral Combined Naval Exercise 2017
 Australia

United
States
India ASEANs
eight
China Japan
Dialogue
Partners
Russia
South
(Plus)
Korea

New
Zealand
 ASEAN-Dialogue Partner Capacity Building
Sea control (the use of sea for whatever purpose determined by
government, naval operations more likely in the littoral but not open
ocean)
Expeditionary operations (dealing with shore based instability and threats
from the sea)
Stability operations (including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief)
Inclusive good order at sea (safeguarding maritime commerce and energy
infrastructure, protection of natural resources from illegitimate
exploitation or environmental damage, and all forms of transnational crime
including piracy), and
Cooperative naval diplomacy
From ACNM to ACNM-Plus?
 Conclusion
Comprehensive approach to security issues
non-traditional security challenges and threats
Traditional security challenges bilateral or mini-lateral
All ASEAN littoral states face similar challenges
Safety of navigation and aviation
Protection and management of marine resources
Marine environmental protection
Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
Search and rescue at sea
Combating transnational crime, people trafficking, piracy, armed robbery and
smuggling
 Acknowledgement
Slide 4 Physical geography map of Southeast Asia [maritime zones
were inserted by the author]
Slide 5 Southeast Asias sea lanes, and
Slide 7 10 Groups of Maritime Issues Discussed in 12 ASEAN Sectoral
Bodies

Taken from Dr. Shafih Fifi Muhibat, ASEAN as a Maritime Community,

Presentation to Towards an ASEAN-centric Maritime Security
Community, 3rd Maritime Security Symposium 2017, The Philippine
Navy, Office of Naval Strategic Studies, Manila, May 10, 2017.
 Major Powers as ASEAN Dialogue
Partners and Potential Contributions to
Maritime Security
Emeritus Professor Carlyle A. Thayer
Presentation to
Vietnam-Australia 1.5 Track Defence Dialogue
Hanoi, May 18, 2017