Last but not least, for the indigenous Southeast Asian states, they have come together as ASEAN to promote multilateral security dialogues so that they could chip in their inputs in the structuring of the evolving security architecture • These mixed developments, and numerous actors with different agendas in a diversified region would suggest that there is a high degree of unpredictability about the future course of Asia-Pacific security •This sense of unpredictability and uncertainty is deepened by serious security challenges in the region