A Case for Cohabitative Security

What is it about?

This paper attempts to explore and analyse the evidence for cohabiting the human security concept into the national security frameworks of ASEAN countries. Using the Philippines and Malaysia as case studies, the article determines the extent to which public officials and policymakers have redefined and re-envisioned national security by incorporating non-traditional, people-centered elements of human security. It argues that human security naturally complements state security, and vice versa.

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Why is it important?

Cohabitative security refers to national governments' efforts to amalgamate statist and humanist dimensions of security when articulating and implementing their national security rhetoric and agenda. This paper explains why and how human security and state security co-exist in a constructive manner that enhances the overall level of national security. In dong so, it tests a two-pronged assumption.