There is a real and urgent need for multilateral cooperation and institution-building to manage traditional and non-traditional security threats in the Asia Pacific. This is the consensus of the nine prominent regional experts presented in the first annual CSCAP Regional Security Outlook 2007 (CRSO), entitled Security through Cooperation: Furthering Asia Pacific Multilateral Engagement. The CRSO will be an annual publication to highlight regional security concerns and to promote informed policy-relevant outputs to advance regional security cooperation at official (Track I) levels. The CRSO 2007 was edited by Brian L. Job, CSCAP Canada Co-Chair.
The CRSO provides concise issue backgrounds, informative data, and specific policy implications for the regional advancement of ‘security through cooperation’ as well as a detailed description of policy implications and initiatives.