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DECEMBER 22-23, 2001 - CONFERENCE ROOM |
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ABSTRACT THE VISION OF SOUTH ASIA IN THE YEAR 2047: PERCEPTIONS ON COOPERATIVE SECURITY NAUSHEEN WASI* While the realist school of thought has always dominated the course of politics in the field of international relations,
idealist approaches have always set a course of debate that makes some of the concepts highly controversial and contested. The concept of security is one of them. Currently the very word security is used with more than
thirty different adjectives. Similarly approaches to security are as contested as the concept of security itself. Apart from the controversial debate among the opposing schools of thought, what makes concepts of these
approaches problematic is loose interpretation of the concepts and a tendency to stretch their meanings. In the same fashion, proponents of cooperative security in their arguments go to the extent of claiming that
all the traditional approaches to security belong to a museum that should be put there as soon as possible. Having fed up with the South Asian history of conflicts and its ramifications, change lovers in this region
take a lot of inspiration from the concept of cooperative security and suggest it as one of the best way to embark on a new journey, whose destination is peace, prosperity and development; equal chances for every nation
in the region to progress without the fear of any threat. How valid is this argument? What do such approaches promise to the conflict-ridden region like South Asia? Why nations choose to confront than to
cooperate? Will the South Asian States reverse the course of their action to promise a better future? etc. are some of the questions that form the basis of this paper. The analysis in this paper has been divided into
four parts. The first one deals with the conceptual framework of cooperative security including the importance of its adoption. The second part deals with different factors that affect applicability of the concept of
cooperative security in South Asia. Part three deals with possibilities how the hindering factors can be turned into the rationale of cooperation. Finally, keeping in view the international political milieu and the
realities of current South Asian strategic environment, it is assessed whether South Asia will adopt a course of cooperation instead of conflict; what it should do to make the most of such concepts as the one of
cooperative security - a vision for 2047. * Research Officer, The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi.
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