CSCAP Regional Security Outlook
The CSCAP Regional Security Outlook (CRSO) is the CSCAP flagship publication, which first appeared in 2008. The CRSO mandate is to survey the most pressing security issues of today and to provide informed policy-relevant recommendations as to how Track One (official) and Track Two (non-official) actors, working together, can advance regional multilateral solutions to these issues.
The CRSO is directed to the broad regional audience encompassed by CSCAP itself and is an annual publication.
Highlights from the CRSO 2011:
* Tensions remain high after explosive bilateral disputes in the region in 2010.
* The oceans have become the primary security theatre for the region.
* Conventional military buildups continue and threaten to destabilise regional crisis points.
* Conflicts in peripheral regions continue to spill across borders.
* Human security remains under great stress.
* Existing regional security institutions continue to under-perform.
