This chapter focuses on the politics and security governance context in maritime Southeast Asia specifically in developmental states of illiberal Singaporean government, semi-democratic Malaysian government and democratic Indonesian government. Analytical insights of the nature and depth of state power, capacity and durability in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia evaluate these respective governments’ domestic, regional and global forms of trans-border non-traditional security threats governance and their relationship to political dynamics in Southeast Asia. Liberal and democratic social forces political engagements of hybrid regimes in Southeast Asia cajoled Singaporean, Malaysian and Indonesian states to rescale their political influence at domestic, regional and global levels in order to engage civil society advances.