1Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Teo Chee Heart at the 6th Plenary session 'Renewing the Regional Security Architecture', The 9th IISS Asian Security Summit: The Shangri-la Dialogue, Singapore, 6 June 2010.
2Ron Huisken, 'ADMM+8: An Acronym to Watch", East Asia Forum, 8 October 2010. Available from http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/10/08/admm8-an-acronymto-watch/[accessed 9 October 2010].
3Ernest Bower, 'Inaugural ASEAN'Defense Ministers' meeting +8 in Hanoi: The 1,000-Year-Old City Hosts Warriors Bent on Peace', Center for Strategic and International Studies, 10 October 2010.
4Amitav Acharya, 'The Association of Southeast Asian Nations: "Security Community" or "Defence Community"?', Pacific Affairs, vol.64, no.2, Summer 1991, pp.159-178.
5See, for example, Nick Bisley, Building Asia's Security, the AdeIphi series, (London: Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2009), p.ll0.
6For further reading see Ron Huisken, 'ASEAN Regional Forum needs the defense ministers', PacNet, no. 15, Pacific Forum CSIS, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002.
7Acharya, 'The Association of Southeast Asian Nations', p. 163.
8Andrew Cottey and Anthony Forster, 'Reshaping Defence Diplomacy: New Roles for Military Cooperation and Assistance', Adelphi Papers, vol. 44, issue 365, 2004, p. 6.
9For further reading see William T. Tow and Beverley Loke, 'Rules of Engagement: America's Asia-Pacific Policy under an Obama Administration', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.63, issue 4, 2009, pp. 443-457.
10The thinking contained in this section of the paper reflects countless conversations research conducted with David Capie from Victoria University of Wellington, which is reflected in David Capie and Brendan Taylor, 'The Shangri-La Dialogue and the institutionalization of defence diplomacy in Asia', The Pacific Review, vol.23, no.3, July 2010, pp. 359-376.
