@article{2015:heiduk:the_milita,
title = {The Military and the Security Sector in Southeast Asia},
year = {2015},
note = {This article examines the different roles that the military has played
in Southeast Asia’s young democracies. While reforms of the security
sector have overall only gained moderate traction, the differences in
reform outcomes between Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand are
nonetheless striking. The article argues that in order to explain the
different reform trajectories we need to move beyond the traditional
focus on structural reform impediments towards an analysis of
actors’ preferences and questions of agency in the context of SSR.
The article finds that the prevalent interpretations of military
reform as a political tool to alter the states’ domestic balance of
power have been a crucial factor behind successful (Thailand) and
unsuccessful (Philippines) military interventions. Conversely, far
lower levels of reform politicization in Indonesia have enabled a
successful implementation of a number of institutional reforms.},
journal = {S&F Sicherheit und Frieden},
pages = {14--19},
author = {Heiduk, Felix},
volume = {33},
number = {1}
}