Abstract

Since the end of the Cold War, and the last decade in particular, there has been an increasing interest in security threats that emerge not from intra- or interstate war but a host of transnational threats to human well-being and state capacity. Captured in the umbrella term ‘non-traditional security’ (NTS), this has been no different in the Asia-Pacific region, where as a consequence of these threats there has emerged an appreciation that state co-operation is needed to counter such challenges.