Topic Guide:
SSR in Southeast Asia

This topic guide provides an introduction to literature on security sector reform (SSR) in Southeast Asia. It highlights key issues and priority areas in the regions and countries, and identifies relevant regional and country texts that cover a number of security sectors. There is an extensive literature on Southeast Asia on topics which are related both directly and indirectly to SSR. To a large extent, this literature includes an extensive group of works on governance, democratisation and democracy, arms trafficking and proliferation, and civil-military relations, among other related issue areas. This guide provides an introduction to that literature. While not exhaustive, this guide shows the extent to which SSR has been a continuing concern in the region even if it had taken specific forms that were not originally contextualised in terms of SSR.

Clicking on the link in a document title will take the reader to a more extensive summary in the GFN-SSR Document Library, which includes a direct link to the original relevant document.

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Page contents

• Introduction
• General texts
• Single-Country Studies on the Security Sector and Security Sector Reform (SSR)
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • The Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Timor Leste
• Comparative Country Studies on Armed Forces and Civil-Military Relations
• Regional Views on Security and Security Sector Reform
• SSR and ASEAN’s External Relations
• Small Arms and Light Weapons
• Maritime Security
• SSR Developments in Southeast Asia 2000-2009
• Suggested further reading on civil-military relations in the developing world
• Organisations

 

For further information on SSR in Southeast Asia, please visit the GFN-SSR Southeast Asia Regional SSR Guide webpage.