TITLE:
ASEAN’s Preventive Diplomacy: What Roles for ASEAN in the South China Sea and the Rakhine State Issues?
AUTHORS:
Chheun Sokla
KEYWORDS:
Diplomacy, Preventive Diplomacy, ASEAN, South China Sea, Rakhine State
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.9 No.2,
April
29,
2019
ABSTRACT: The ASEAN’s preventive diplomacy is the new phenomenon in the regional
architecture concerning with the living and breathing modern miracle in ASEAN.
It has been one of the most substantial scenarios for all nation states to utilize and benefit form in term of common national interest and to divert major conflicts in the
area of peaceful cooperation. The challenging issue in ASEAN is triggering
political and security regional become tremendous problem, so ASEAN wouldn’t be
ignorable and has to narrowly compromise those rising major issues,
immediately. The South China Sea and the Rakhine State issues are the two
common aspects undertaking and discussing urgently, and it will be an obstacle
for ASEAN to move forward in ASEAN integration. The rises of China in Southeast
Asia is also an area of concern for ASEAN’s efforts at preventing conflict
because the confidence building has illustrated little progress in last a few
years—after
the signed DOC in 2002 but the progressing negotiation on the COC is now
difficult to be finalized. Whereas the Rakhine State issue in Myanmar is better
understanding as the human rights concerns and ASEAN would appreciate the hard
efforts between Myanmar and Bangladesh Governments. However, Rohingyas crisis
is uncompromisingly facing crackdown by both parties on other matters. In this
regard, ASEAN diplomacy is applied by its
roles and encourages powerful actors to take action with regards to the
signatory MoU between Myanmar Government, UNDP and UNHCR in 2018. Facilitating the process of the repatriation of the displaced persons, is a positive
measure to achieve solution for the people in Rakhine State. These sensitive
issues are struggling ASEAN to quickly move on to the sustainable development,
and also concern to all ASEAN partners especially the United Nations and the
United States of America.