HUMAN SECURITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA - SHORTSIGHTED, NEARSIGHTED OR LACKING FORESIGHT?

Like all the fields of non-traditional security, human security is exceptional in standing, and in gig and guise as well Its sterling qualities and characteristics arise from the departure from the central interest for the acts of the state on the global arena to those that are most affected by these acts: the people. Human security is all-encompassing! It does not target the forming exception of only debriefing reports upon the people with a citizenship status within states. It purposes the obtaining of fuller insights into the people belonging to all nations, ethnicities and races. In Southeast Asia, the qualifications of the relevance of human security are highly tested, as the states of the region are underway of recovery from the catechizing of too much concentration on state-survival, statehood and on ensuring the instrumentalities for the preservation of independence. Throughout this article, the author strives to delve into the significant expansion of human security issues for the focus of audit and canvass of the regional elites' actions, by pinpointing the chief counter-invitations to engage into such an effect of emergence of human security in Southeast Asia. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]