At the same time, this stability will contribute to strengthening global security and ensuring the interests of the countries related. This paper addresses the issues of non-traditional security and possibilities for cooperation within the framework of general security cooperation in the region, based on the researches on non-traditional security, analysis of the actual problems, and proposes some possibilities and solutions for the problems. | POLITICS - ECONOMICS The Issues of Non-traditional Security in East Asia and Possibilities for Cooperation Nguyen Quang Thuan* Abstract: At present, the East Asia region, including Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, has been emerging as an important region of the most concern in the world today in terms of geo-strategy, geo-politics and security. Security stability in this region is a decisive factor to political and economic development as well as in other aspects of the life of the people in the region. At the same time, this stability will contribute to strengthening global security and ensuring the interests of the countries related. This paper addresses the issues of non-traditional security and possibilities for cooperation within the framework of general security cooperation in the region, based on the researches on non-traditional security, analysis of the actual problems, and proposes some possibilities and solutions for the problems**. Key words: East Asia, security, non-traditional security, politics. Peaceful development, stability, prosperity and mutual interests are the mainstreams of the globalized world today, including the East Asia which consists of Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia subregions. The former ideological confrontations, especially in the Cold War time, are now of less significance and, thus, the military conflicts and army escalations have been decreasing considerably. However, the fast, big and unpredictable geo-political changes in the world and in the region have been creating many multidimensional impacts on the political life [3]. Many new problems, including security ones, have emerged. For security stability in the world and in the East Asian region, there need methods, new solutions and measures for the problems. To deeper understand these “new” things will be a concrete contribution to security preservation in the world in general and in East Asia in particular.* 1. The issues of non - traditional security in East .
