(Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia : region, regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations / Alice D. Ba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ba, Alice D.

Series:

Studies in Asian security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

ASEAN.

Regionalism--Southeast Asia.

Regionalism.

Regionalism--East Asia.

East Asia.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations--East Asia.

East Asia--Foreign relations--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Renegotiating East and Southeast Asia

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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 an association of lesser, self-identified Southeast Asian states 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.

Contents:

The ASEAN paradox and IR theory

Why ASEAN? Why 1967?

The ideas that bind : negotiating ASEAN's ways

The politics and rhetoric of "one Southeast Asia"

Locating ASEAN in East Asia and the Asia Pacific

ASEAN of and beyond Southeast Asia : the ASEAN regional forum

Renegotiating East Asia : "the idea that will not go away".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-309) and index.

ISBN:

9780804760690

0804760691

9780804760706

0804760705

OCLC:

271104628