ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the tensions inherent in seeking “security” within the hegemonic security narratives of the War on Terror, with the larger purpose of demonstrating that the pursuit of security by states often contributes to forms of insecurity, critically defined. It demonstrates that forms of insecurity were constructed and abetted by the security narratives and material practices of the War on Terror itself, and that these forms of insecurity occurred in concert with the practices of traditional forms of state-centric security. The book examines International Relations scholarship on the region, surveying the dominant literature on Southeast Asian security. The book looks at realist and constructivist images of security in East and Southeast Asia, and their corresponding “hub and spokes” and “comprehensive security” models.
