In addition to these external pressures, on-going as well as new developments
within the region have also added further stress on ASEAN. At the politicalsecurity
level, these include the rise of 'non-traditional' security threats following
911 and the US 'global war on terrorism'; unresolved intra-regional land and
maritime territorial disputes which remained the region's potential flash-points;
increase in organized trans-boundary crime; the conflicts between the demand
for human rights and civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights;
increased pressures for democratization; good governance from civil society
grouping, and mounting external pressures on ASEAN's to abandon its
'non-interference' principles in the interest of progressive regionalism.