Hard choices : security, democracy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia / edited by Donald K. Emmerson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emmerson, Donald K.

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Southeast Asia.

National security.

Democracy.

Southeast Asia.

Democracy--Southeast Asia.

Regionalism--Southeast Asia.

Regionalism.

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

Politics and government.

ASEAN.

Physical Description:

xxi, 397 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center ; Baltimore, MD : Distributed by Brookings Institution, c/o DFS, [2008]

Summary:

Southeast Asia Faces Hard Choices. The region's most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism.

Should ASEAN's leaders defend a member country's citizens against state predation for the sake of justice-and risk splitting ASEAN itself? Or should regional leaders privilege state security over human security for the sake of order-and risk being known as a dictators' club? Should ASEAN isolate or tolerate the junta in Myanmar? Is democracy a requisite to security, or is it the other way around? How can democratization become a regional project without first transforming the Association into a "people-centered" organization? But how can ASEAN reinvent itself along such lines if its member states are not already democratic?

How will its new Charter affect ASEAN's ability to make these hard choices? How is regionalism being challenged by transnational crime, infectious disease, and other border-jumping threats to human security in Southeast Asia? Why have regional leaders failed to stop the perennial regional "haze" from brush fires in democratic Indonesia? Does democracy help or hinder nuclear energy security in the region?

In this timely book-the second of a three-book series focused on Asian regionalism-ten analysts from six countries address these and other pressing questions that Southeast Asia faces in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Foreword / Surin Pitsuwan

Critical terms : security, democracy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia / Donald K. Emmerson

Sovereignty rules : human security, civil society, and the limits of liberal reform / Jorn Dosch

Institutional reform : one charter, three communities, many challenges / Termsak Chalermpalanupap

Political development : a democracy agenda for ASEAN? / Rizal Sukma

ASEAN's pariah : insecurity and autocracy in Myanmar (Burma) / Kyaw Yin Hlaing

Challenging change : nontraditional security, democracy, and regionalism / Mely Caballero-Anthony

Blowing smoke : regional cooperation, Indonesian democracy, and the haze / Simon S. C. Tay

Bypassing regionalism? Domestic politics and nuclear energy security / Michael S. Malley

Toward relative decency : the case for prudence / David Martin Jones

Toward responsible sovereignty : the case for intervention / Erik Martinez Kuhonta

Appendix. Text of the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-368) and index.

ISBN:

9781931368131

1931368139

OCLC:

185691318

Publisher Number:

99939247231