Abstract:Against the backdrop of the continuous development of multilateralism and the return of great power competition,a series of securityminilaterals based on shared interests and values have grown rapidly. They are intended to solve specific regional security problems through trilateral or quadrilateral cooperation,and have multiple impacts on the changing regional security order. Existing studies overwhelmingly focus on relevant trans-regional practices of the United States,but lack attention to localized sub-regional practices and in-depth cultural or normative analysis. Taking the security cooperation between Indonesia,Malaysia and the Philippines,a relatively deep emerging practice led by ASEAN states,as an example,we can explore the security minilateralism in Southeast Asia and the specific ways to solve sub-regional security issues. Indonesia,Malaysia and the Philippines,the founding members of ASEAN,formally launched trilateral cross-border regional cooperation in May 2016 to address growing security challenges in maritime areas of mutual interest. Through their coordination,they have effectively addressed common security challenges in the practice of trilateral security cooperation,and at the same time formed norms such as autonomy,equality,gradualism,comprehensiveness and openness. While inheriting and supplementing the ASEAN regional cooperation architecture,it also carries forward the security pillar of regional cooperation and community building with flexibility and functionality,thus showing the “ASEAN plan” of constructing and operating a reasonable,feasible,sustainable and localized security architecture.
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