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This article highlights the formulation of comprehensive conceptions of security in Indonesia, Malaysia and within the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), well before their academic conceptualisation. These security doctrines have been the basis of the consolidation of state and military apparatuses in the region. They tend to be overlooked by analyses praising the recent conversion of Southeast Asian political elites to the "non-traditional security"? agenda. This latter development is perceived as a source of multilateral cooperation and a substitute for the hardly operationalisable concept of human security. However, in the region, non-traditional security proves to be a semantic evolution rather than a policy transformation. At the core of ASEAN's security narrative, it has provided a multilateral anointing of "broad" but not deepened conceptions of security, thus legitimising wide-ranging socio-political roles for the armed forces.

En analysant le volet indonésien de la Belt and Road Initiative (bri), cet article montre les apports croisés de l'étude des (mis)perceptions et de leurs usages en politique étrangère, et d'une approche décentrée des Relations internationales. La mise en récit de la bri fait écho à la représentation d'une émergence chinoise vouée à s'imposer unilatéralement. Sa mise en oeuvre dans l'archipel est pourtant incrémentale et largement soumise à l'agenda politique indonésien. La misperception est néanmoins entretenue par Pékin et Jakarta, car elle sert leurs agendas respectifs. L'interdépendance asymétrique entre les deux États paraît renforcée par ce projet, qui invite à consolider le concept d'ambiguïté stratégique et à ancrer l'analyse des relations internationales dans l'observation de leurs effets localisés.

Illusions of Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People' offers an up-to-date and broad analysis of the contemporary state of Malaysian politics and society. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it offers a look at Malaysian politics not only through the lens of political science but also anthropology, cultural studies, international relations, political economy and legal studies touching on both overlooked topics in Malaysian political life as well as the emerging trends which will shape Malaysia's future. Covering silat martial arts, Malaysia's constitutional identity, emergency legislation, the South China Sea dilemma, ISIS discourse, zakat payment, the fallout from the 1MDB scandal and Malaysia's green movement, 'Illusions of Democracy' charts the complex and multi-faceted nature of political life in a semi-authoritarian state, breaking down the illusions which keep it functioning, to uncover the mechanisms which really underlie the paradoxical longevity of Malaysia's political, economic and social system