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Book Regional Security in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Regional Security in Southeast Asia written by Mely Caballero Anthony and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors beyond the states of ASEAN and the key interactions that have evolved over time, which have been instrumental in moving regional mechanisms beyond the ASEAN way. The book argues that the ASEAN way has not been impervious to change. As the association finds its way through periods of crises and continues to confront the many challenges ahead, ASEAN and its mechanisms are already being transformed beyond the narrow confines of the modalities associated with the ASEAN way. The changes in the political and security landscape of the region, as well as the democratic transitions taking place in some member states, have set the stage for a much more dynamic set of regional actors and processes that bring into question the kind of regionalism that is now taking place in the region. the way regionalism is changing in Southeast Asia.

Book The ASEAN Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ms.Ana Corbacho
  • Publisher : International Monetary Fund
  • Release : 2018-10-02
  • ISBN : 1513558900
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book The ASEAN Way written by Ms.Ana Corbacho and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the book examines the evolution of monetary policy and prudential frameworks of the ASEAN5, with particular focus on changes since the Asian financial crisis and the more recent period of unconventional monetary policy in advanced economies. The second part of the book looks at policy responses to global financial spillovers. The third and last part of the book elaborates on the challenges ahead for monetary policy, financial stability frameworks, and the deepening of financial markets.

Book Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community

Download or read book Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community written by C. Rodolfo Severino and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking about ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the ASEAN Way, the accession of the new members, including Myanmar, the principle of non-interference, regional security, regional economic integration, the haze and SARS, and ASEAN's future.

Book Building a People Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

Download or read book Building a People Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way written by Alan Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ASEAN has declared its intention to create a security community in Southeast Asia that is people-orientated. This book evaluates ASEAN’s progress, and in doing so examines three matters of concern. The book firstly looks at the importance of constitutive norms to the workings of security communities, by identifying ASEAN’s constitutive norms and the extent to which they act as a help of hindrance in establishing a security community. It then moves on to how ASEAN has interpreted people-orientated as empowering civil society organisations to be community stakeholders. The book discusses the uncertainty between how ASEAN envisages their role, and the role they themselves expect to have. Civil society actors are seeking to influence what sort of community evolves and their ability to interact with the state elite is evaluated to determine what interpretation of people-oriented is likely to emerge. Thirdly, in order to make progress ASEAN has sought to achieve cooperation among its member states in functional areas. The book examines this interest in functional cooperation through case studies on human rights, HIV/AIDS and disaster management. By discussing the notion of ASEAN being people-orientated, and how it engages with ‘the people’, the book provides important insights into what type of community ASEAN in building, as well as furthering our understanding on security communities more broadly.

Book The 2nd ASEAN Reader

Download or read book The 2nd ASEAN Reader written by Sharon Siddique and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the first ASEAN Reader. Some of the classic readings from the original ASEAN reader have been incorporated into this new compilation, but the majority of the readings cover events of the past decade (1993-2003). During this decade ASEAN as an organization was revamped, and its membership increased from six to ten.

Book International Intellectual Property and the ASEAN Way

Download or read book International Intellectual Property and the ASEAN Way written by Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is actively seeking ways for member countries to enhance their individual economic development within the context of overall regional advancement. Central to this is the creation of a regional intellectual property framework. This book examines the efforts to move beyond sovereign protections of intellectual property rights and establish meaningful inter-state cooperation on intellectual property issues. Rather than aim for IP harmonization, ASEAN recognizes its internal diversity and pursues an agenda of 'IP Interoperability'. The essays in this collection examine the unique dynamics of 'interoperability', analyzing the administration of intellectual property in a part of the world that is of increasing importance. The book enables the reader to compare and contrast the ASEAN model to other approaches in regional cooperation, such as Europe and Latin America, and also explores private international law as a potential vehicle for interoperability.

Book Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia written by Mikio Oishi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at major contemporary conflicts —intra and interstate— in Southeast Asia from a conflict management perspective. Starting with the view that the conventional ASEAN conflict-management methods have ceased to be effective, it looks for new conflict-management patterns and trends by investigating seven contemporary cases of conflict in the region. Focusing on the incompatibilities involved in each case and examining how they have been managed—whether by integration, co-existence, elimination or maneuvering around the conflict—the book sheds new light on the significance of managing conflict in achieving and maintaining the stability of the Southeast Asian region. It makes a significant theoretical contribution to the field of peace and conflict studies by proposing the concept of “mediation regime” as the key to understanding current conflict management within ASEAN.

Book Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia written by Amitav Acharya and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the most comprehensive and critical account available of the evolution of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management.

Book ASEAN Miracle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kishore Mahbubani
  • Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
  • Release : 2017-03-08
  • ISBN : 9814722650
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book ASEAN Miracle written by Kishore Mahbubani and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations-especially Islam and the West-cannot live together in peace. The ten countries of ASEAN provide a thriving counter-example of civilizational co-existence. Here 625m people live together in peace. This miracle was delivered by ASEAN.In an era of growing economic pessimism, where many young people believe that their lives will get worse in coming decades, Southeast Asia bubbles with optimism. In an era where many thinkers predict rising geopolitical competition and tension, ASEAN regularly brings together all the world's great powers.Stories of peace are told less frequently than stories of conflict and war. ASEAN's imperfections make better headlines than its achievements. But in the hands of thinker and writer Kishore Mahbubani, the good news story is also a provocation and a challenge to the rest of the world.This excellent book explains, in clear and simple terms, how and why ASEAN has become one of the most successful regional organizations in the world. - George YeoA powerful and passionate account of how, against all odds, ASEAN transformed the region and why Asia and the world need it even more today. - Amitav Acharya

Book The Indonesian Way

Download or read book The Indonesian Way written by Jürgen Rüland and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration. Political commentators and media outlets, however, greeted its establishment with little fanfare. Implicitly and explicitly, they suggested that the AC was only the beginning: Southeast Asia, they seemed to say, was taking its first steps on a linear process of unification that would converge on the model of the European Union. In The Indonesian Way, Jürgen Rüland challenges this previously unquestioned diffusion of European norms. Focusing on the reception of ASEAN in Indonesia, Rüland traces how foreign policy stakeholders in government, civil society, the legislature, academe, the press, and the business sector have responded to calls for ASEAN's Europeanization, ultimately fusing them with their own distinctly Indonesian form of regionalism. His analysis reframes the nature of ASEAN as well as the discipline of international relations more broadly, writing a narrative of regional integration and norm diffusion that breaks free of Eurocentric thought.

Book Asian Yearbook of International Law  Volume 24  2018

Download or read book Asian Yearbook of International Law Volume 24 2018 written by Seokwoo Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major internationally-refereed yearbook dedicated to international legal issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. It is published under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA) in collaboration with DILA-Korea, the Secretariat of DILA, in South Korea. When it was launched, the Yearbook was the first publication of its kind, edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. It provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law and other Asian international legal topics. The objectives of the Yearbook are two-fold: First, to promote research, study and writing in the field of international law in Asia; and second, to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues. Each volume of the Yearbook contains articles and shorter notes; a section on Asian state practice; an overview of the Asian states’ participation in multilateral treaties and succinct analysis of recent international legal developments in Asia; a bibliography that provides information on books, articles, notes, and other materials dealing with international law in Asia; as well as book reviews. This publication is important for anyone working on international law and in Asian studies. The 2018 edition of the Yearbook features articles on the practice of Asian states from the perspective of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).

Book The Asean Charter

Download or read book The Asean Charter written by ASEAN. and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Does ASEAN Matter

Download or read book Does ASEAN Matter written by Marty Natalegawa and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN’s quest for security and prosperity in a region marked by complex dynamics of power. Namely, the interplay of relations and interests among countries — large and small — which provide the settings within which ASEAN must deliver on its much-cited leadership and centrality in the region. The book seeks to answer the following questions: How can ASEAN build upon its past contributions to the peace, security and prosperity of Southeast Asia, to the wider East Asia, the Asia-Pacific and the Indo-Pacific regions? More fundamentally and a sine qua non, how can ASEAN continue to ensure that peace, security and prosperity prevail in Southeast Asia? And, equally central, how can ASEAN become more relevant to the peoples of ASEAN, such that its contributions can be genuinely felt in making better the lives of its citizens?

Book The Making of the ASEAN Charter

Download or read book The Making of the ASEAN Charter written by Rosario G. Manalo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the historic occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2007, the leaders of the ten-member countries signed the ASEAN Charter. This book captures the insiders' views of the drafting of the Charter. It is suitable for those interested in ASEAN, and international law.

Book The  ASEAN Way  with Its Emphasis on Sovereignty  Non interference  and Consensus Has Failed to Resolve Ethnic and Religious Conflicts

Download or read book The ASEAN Way with Its Emphasis on Sovereignty Non interference and Consensus Has Failed to Resolve Ethnic and Religious Conflicts written by Annette Ching-Wen Chew and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research addresses a prominent puzzle in Southeast Asia concerning the existence of a number of protracted ethnic conflicts. The focus is on the question why these conflicts have remained unresolved for decades, and this is in spite of a generally peaceful political environment in the region. The aim of this research is to identify a possible answer to the question and this is linked to how Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), more specifically the ‘ASEAN way’ deals with these conflicts. I hypothesize that The ‘ASEAN way’ with its emphasis on sovereignty, non-interference, and consensus has failed to resolve ethnic and religious conflicts. The theoretical framework is based on Walter’s theory of credible commitment and third party guarantee. To verify this hypothesis I shall be using data from four case studies from different countries within the region. Analysis will be based on George and Bennett’s case study comparisons and process tracing. Regarding the case studies, one has seemingly been resolved and one partially resolved, and both have the benefit of third party actors and security guarantees of some sort, which confirms Walter’s theory. One remains unresolved, while the fourth case is a stand-alone case where the government insisted on its own approach. In all cases, we only see minimal ASEAN peace contribution. Critics of ASEAN are quick to lay the blame on the ‘ASEAN way’ for preventing it to play an active role in mediating in the conflicts. It is generally true that sovereignty and non-interference prevents ASEAN from getting involved in members’ internal affairs and its consensus decision making means ‘sensitive’ and complicated matters are unlikely to be raised. However, it seems too simplistic to hold the ‘ASEAN way’ totally accountable. There are several important factors that need to be taken into account and these include the complex, deep-rooted nature of the conflicts with one dating back to a few centuries ago, insistence of the affected country to do things on their own, information asymmetries, existence of ‘spoilers’ and ASEAN’s weak institutional setup. ASEAN was not setup as a conflict resolution body and proposals to form an ASEAN peace keeping force has been rejected, so it would not have the expertise and the organizational backup to perform the work of a third party to provide credible commitment and security guarantees, as envisaged by Walter. Unless ASEAN can overcome these two ‘weaknesses’ it is unlikely to play the role of an active third party mediator. While ASEAN as a whole has not taken up a third party role, its individual members, mainly Malaysia and Indonesia, have taken up third party roles. Thus the ‘ASEAN way’ even though it emphasizes on sovereignty and noninterference, does not prevent its members from getting involved in another member’s internal affairs, provided they have the consent of the affected country.

Book Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Economic Community

Download or read book Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Economic Community written by Roderick Macdonald and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the economic community founded by Southeast Asian nations. It provides both economic profiles of the member nations and an explanation of the Community itself. This book also discusses the impact of China on the AEC. The book is a starting point for research into the region or into any member country, whether for academic or for business purposes. With over 170 tables and figures as well as an abundance of historical facts, the book offers data-based insights.

Book The ASEAN Economic Community

Download or read book The ASEAN Economic Community written by Sanchita Basu Das and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important and timely volume: important because ASEAN is an increasingly significant and influential regional and global actor; and timely because, as the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community target approaches, what is needed is a sympathetic yet arms-length survey of the issues and challenges. ASEAN will miss some of the targets laid out in its AEC Blueprint, but the reader is left in no doubt that the ASEAN spirit is alive and well. The editors include a distinguished former Secretary General of ASEAN and the leading academic analyst of ASEAN economic cooperation. They and their co-editors are to be congratulated for soliciting contributions from an outstanding and diverse group of authors, and then adding their highly authoritative commentary and analysis. A must read for anybody seriously interested in ASEAN.