Turning to the third proposition, future regional security arrangements should share several important attributes with investment and commercial interactions. I have been promoting the notion of security communities. Karl Deutch coined the term to describe a community of nations that have dependable expectations of peaceful change. They are committed to policy coordination, including military cooperation on a particular regional security issue, or a series of related security issues, to advance peaceful development of their region over time without major conflict. Security communities are appropriate for the Asia-Pacific region since the members need not be treaty alliance signatories.
Security communities share several attributes with investment and commercial interactions.
In summary, let me say again that in the area of security and peaceful development, those of us in the armed forces and those of you in the business world have parallel and often overlapping interests. Our objectives mine to keep the peace, and yours to make a buck or a yen or a yuan can be self-reinforcing. Most important, we need to develop security communities, which emphasize cooperation, solving problems peacefully, and I enlist your support as business executives and as citizens. My remarks just scratch the surface of what we are here to discuss this morning. I look forward to hearing the panel and the discussion that it engenders.