ASEAN is moving rapidly to forge a stronger political and security identity, with members engaged in an array of new initiatives designed to achieve the ambitious goal in 2015. Reforms underway in Myanmar have added to ASEAN's political momentum as has the creation of the East Asia Summit. As ASEAN
The latest ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting entitled “Working Together on Non-traditional Security Challenges” on 7 June 2011 in Gödöllő, Hungary, marked the official arrival of the concept of non-traditional security (NTS) into the EU’s rhetoric. This concept, describing unconventional threats stemming from other sources than the military, has been for