The difficulty with this process, however, is not only that is it relatively new. It is that here are no formal, standing multilateral institutions in either Northeast Asia or Southeast Asia, with the exception of ASEAN, which has had a very low profile on hard, as well as soft, security issues.
Or, ce processus est non seulement relativement nouveau, mais il n'existe aucune institution multilatérale formelle en Asie du Nord-Est ou en Asie du Sud-Est, sauf peut-être l'ASEAN, qui s'est montrée plutôt discrète sur les questions de haute et de faible sécurité.
