Adelphi Paper 279. Cover title. On cover: The factors and policy responses that will shape ASEAN's contribution to regional security and order. "August 1993."

Introduction--I. Regional Order: Old patterns and new challenges--II. ASEAN Security Problems: Issues and Responses--III. ASEAN - Indochinese Relations: Managing Regional Reconciliation--IV. Towards a New Regional Order: Approaches and Problems--Conclusion. Assessing ASEAN's security role in the post-Cold War era raises a number of important questions. What are the changes in the old regional order that most concern the ASEAN states? Will ASEAN be able to deal with these changes and the specific security threats - internal, inter-state and external - associated with them through greater levels of security cooperations? How does ASEAN's emerging approach to security affect its long-established security framework? Finally, what are the major limitations of ASEAN's new approach in creating the basis for a new regional order? These questions constitute the central analytic focus of this study and are systematically addressed in tis four main chapters.