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The Crisis of National Security in Southeast Asia.

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Asia countries have experienced security crisis for a long time .This has risen concern

from the Global world as the countries of the Southeast Asia have had no peace for a long time.

According to the research conducted as the insecurity is the main concern it has been concluded

that the following are the root course.

Radical Islamist together with terrorist groups based on some of the Southeast Asia

Nations were known to be the leading security menace. Global World led by United States Since

September 2001 has increased its focus among some of the Nations that are believed to be

affected mostly. These Includes: Afghanistan, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and

Singapore are among the countries being monitored and focused by Global world led by United

States.

The following explains how Islamist Militancy come to rise in Southeast Asia according

to research conducted on security crisis. It have been felt the importance of the anti-Western

terrorist activity taking place in Southeast Asia as recently we have experienced counter-terror

measures appear to significantly have degraded anti-Western terrorist groups against launching

attack plan towards Western targets.

In attention to that United States has focused on some of the radical Islamic groups

particularly the terrorist network known as Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) .This group is believed to have

links with ALQaeda network. These groups mostly want to create there Independent Islamic

states around the majority-Muslim areas aiming to overthrow the existing secular governments.

These groups are believed to focus on establishing a new supra-national Islamic state which

will comprise of the following states: Southern Philippine, Singapore, Southern Thailand, and
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Malaysia. In aim of accomplishing their objectives they planned and carried an attack that was

violent against both Southeast Asia targets, Western targets as well as America.

Al Qaeda planned and used Southeast Asia cells for the purpose of helping in financing

and organizing its global activities. These includes the September 11 attacks therefore provide a

safe harbor to conduct Al Qaeda operations. They convicted an organizer of 1993 bombing of

World Trade Center Rami Yousef.

Later there was seriously weakening of communication, organization, degrading of

command and fundraising structures. This was accomplished through killings of JI members

arrests and year of surveillance that was done by various states. Many of analyst have a believe it

was almost exclusively operate in Indonesia, while there was a number of operates that were

active as well in Mindanao Philippines.

Despite the mutual interest of combating terrorism, Obama Administration as well as

congress was presented. It was not given fully priority now given US had engagement in

Afghanistan and Iraq, Southeast Asia government were to balance their security concerns as

well as their domestic political consideration.

Its propelled that the rise of anti-American sentiment on both US has led invasion and

presence both in Iraq as well as Southeast Asia Muslims. They had a perception of Israeli-

Palestinian to be blatantly pro-Israel this makes it difficult for majority of government to

countenance their own security.

The Asia crisis early in 1967 played a big role in the current Global Social security and

Economic crisis as the attacks affected the whole world through creation of the tension among
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the other states involved .The affected states currently affected include; United States of America

among others. The following are among the Global Economic Crisis and Social Security in

Southeast Asia

Among the Global Economic crisis began in 1997 when a foreigner investor sentiment

with a sharp change had led to sudden collapse in investment, severe liquidity squeeze, severe

recession and the emergence of the massive bad debts. This led in both instance as financial

crisis which later turned to be economic crisis and later eventually to social crisis.

The 1997-98 crisis ended up putting the people to social catastrophe risk as the social

system lacked protection. The governments of the countries which were the worst affected

hurriedly expanded their own social protection system getting substantial help from other

international organizations. The current crisis today again is yet confirming mechanism for the

robust social protection that will provide protection for those affected by the adverse economic

circumstances.

Governments had liberalized there financial institution without in return building a strong

sufficiently financial regulatory and supervisory capacity. This led to emergence of crisis that

involved rapid growth in private capital flows. Asia had experienced economic crises that had

been stuck for a whole decade, this took place between the year 1997 and 2008.The recent crisis

has been seen as more pernicious than that of its predecessor and it follows immediately was

energy and food crisis afterwards.

The main objective of this research about the Global economic and social security was to

provide the snapshot of what happened in one of the known financial crisis that took place in
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Asia in 1997.The Economic and social security crisis are core related and happen at the result of

the other.

It is believed that when there is crisis in one Nation it affects the Global world at large as

it has to rise concerns to others Economically, Socially or Politically.

In recent past, there has been efforts from the outside world to control the situations in the

Southeast Asia. There has been more cooperation from countries which are members of the

South Asia Association. These efforts are efforts are more visible in the ground than the way they

have been discussed in the academic and political lectures. This has been strengthened by the

overall relationship between India and its neighbors.

One of the reason that has contributed to the expansion of the security cooperation is the

change that has been witnessed in Indias Southeast Asia policy since 1990. India is seen to build

economic cooperation by participating in the unilateral concessions to solve bilateral conflicts.

Recently, India has been pursuing its security forces to work on restoring peace without

interfering with the domestic affairs of the countries affected.

Due to external and internal conflicts in Southeast Asia, the security architecture is

characterized a number of different forms of collaboration. Some of the institutions that has

already shown their interest in this collaboration include the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

(SCO) and the ASEAN Regional Form (ARF).

Other countries that have intensified their economic and security relations with Southeast

Asia include the United States of America and China. Although they have shown their interest in

helping the countries in this region to stabilize, they have show little interest in the domestic
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conflicts in this region. Their long time interest in making the governments of the affected region

stronger have somehow yielded fruits.

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