Human Security Norms in East Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Human Security in East Asia: Assembling a Puzzle

   • Yoichi Mine, Oscar A. Gómez, Ako Muto

   Pages 1-22

3. Human Security Problems in Cambodia: Far from Over

   • Pou Sovachana, Alice Beban

   Pages 23-44

4. Human Security in Practice: The Chinese Experience

   • Ren Xiao

   Pages 45-65

5. Perceptions on Human Security: An Indonesian View

   • Lina A. Alexandra

   Pages 67-89

6. An Analysis of Japanese Stakeholder Perceptions

   • Kaoru Kurusu

   Pages 91-111

7. Perceptions and Practice of Human Security in Malaysia

   • Benny Cheng Guan Teh, Ik Tien Ngu

   Pages 113-133

8. Human Security and Development in Myanmar: Issues and Implications

   • Moe Thuzar

   Pages 135-158

9. Human Security in Practice: The Philippine Experience from the Perspective of Different Stakeholders

   • Maria Ela L. Atienza

   Pages 159-181

10. Human Security in Singapore: Where Entitlement Feeds Insecurity

    • Belinda Chng, Sofiah Jamil

    Pages 183-203

11. Human Security in Practice: The Case of South Korea

    • Eun Mee Kim, Seon Young Bae, Ji Hyun Shin

    Pages 205-225

12. Human Security in Practice in Thailand

    • Surangrut Jumnianpol, Nithi Nuangjamnong

    Pages 227-247

13. The Concept of Human Security in Vietnam

    • Lan Dung Pham, Ngoc Lan Nguyen, Bich Thao Bui, Thi Trang Ngo, Thu Giang Nguyen

    Pages 249-271

14. What Is at Stake in Localizing Human Security Norms in the ASEAN+3?: A Comparative Analysis of 11 Qualitative Regional Review Surveys

    • Oscar A. Gómez

    Pages 273-294

15. The Way Forward: The Power of Diversity

    • Ako Muto, Yoichi Mine

    Pages 295-309

16. Back Matter

    Pages 311-324

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This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of human security stakeholders and their values. Asian stakeholders are willing to engage in the cultural interpretation and contextualization of human security, underlining the importance of human dignity in addition to freedom from fear and from want. This dignity element, together with national ownership, may be the most important values added in the Asian version of human security. 

• human security
• state security
• East Asia
• regionalism
• conflict
• humanitarian crises

“An impressive array of top-quality case studies. Human security norms are localized and deeply rooted in economic and development strategy in East Asia. It is very timely to reflect the added-value of human security to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): no one left behind.” (Yukio Takasu, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Human Security, Japan)

“The definitive comparative analysis of the varieties of human security in East Asia over the last quarter-century. Demands by East Asians for dignity and agency advance redefinitions of human security, projecting the new South onto a problematic global scene.” (Timothy Shaw, Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

• Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

  Yoichi Mine

• Research Institute, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, Japan

  Oscar A. Gómez, Ako Muto

Yoichi Mine is Professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University, Japan.


Oscar A. Gómez is Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.


Ako Muto is Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.

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