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This paper looks at Southeast Asia's changing security structure and evaluates the implications for Australian national security. According to the author, the broader Asian security environment is in flux and an era of strategic quiescence in Southeast Asia may be drawing to a close. Security trends in the region are increasingly being shaped by a set of global and broader Asian concerns as well as local ones. The growing Asian great powers are eroding the old sub-regional boundaries between Northeast and Southeast Asia. In consequence, traditional patterns of strategic influence and cooperation are shifting in Southeast Asia.