(Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Contributor(s): Ba, Alice D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804760705 ISBN-13: 9780804760706 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Tracing ASEAN debates about Southeast Asia's intra- and extra-regional relations over four decades, this book argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds light on intervening processes of argument and debate, and highlights interacting material, ideational, and social forces in the construction of regions and regionalisms in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, and East Asia. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General |
Dewey: 341.247 |
LCCN: 2008047523 |
Series: Studies in Asian Security (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of lesser, self-identified Southeast Asian powers gone beyond its original regional purview to shape the form and content of Asian Pacific and East Asian regionalisms? According to Alice Ba, the answers lie in ASEAN's founding arguments: arguments that were premised on an assumed regional disunity. She demonstrates how these arguments draw critical causal connections that make Southeast Asian regionalism a necessary response to problems, give rise to its defining informality and consensus-seeking process, and also constrain ASEAN's regionalism. Tracing debates about ASEAN's intra- and extra-regional relations over four decades, she argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds light on intervening processes of argument and debate, and highlights interacting material, ideational, and social forces in the construction of regions and regionalisms. |