This book is rich in detail not only of events but of the people and places and interactions leading to them. Yet it has a comprehensive sweep encompassing contemporary inter-state relations as well as theory, history, domestic politics, interests, perceptions, identity and much more. This is a must-read for any student, scholar, or practitioner interested in Southeast Asia and its project of regional community building.
Aileen Baviera, Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Manila
Regional integration is no easy business especially in the Southeast Asian context! However, Dr Roberts book provides an excellent analysis that enables readers to understand this complex process. The book also provides valuable insights and analysis on the challenges ahead. It is a highly balanced book about ASEAN and a must read to anyone who wants to better understand Southeast Asia.
Rizal Sukma, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta
This outstanding volume covers key debates within the regional organization as it moved to adopt the ASEAN Charter and weathered criticism following the entry of Myanmar/Burma. It will also be useful to students of regionalism and globalization because of its empirical analysis of the imperatives for regional integration through ASEAN and its awareness of the limitations arising from inter-state competition and divergent domestic capabilities within its member states which impact on efforts to create an ASEAN identity.
Barry Desker, Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
ASEAN Regionalism
This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns domestic, regional and international have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN. It also explores how the patterns of interaction and socialization generated by these issues, together with the nature of domestic political systems, have affected the emergence of common values, norms and interests.
Extensive fieldwork in all the ASEAN countries including interviews and surveys contributes to a fresh and empirically grounded assessment of ASEANs effectiveness in responding to domestic and regional security and economic concerns. It also explores the extent to which the patterns of interaction and socialization generated by these issues have contributed to greater cooperation and institutionalization through common norms, values and interests. It covers a full range of issues confronting ASEAN at present (including the ASEAN Charter and Myanmar) as well as likely future developments.
Christopher B. Roberts is Senior Lecturer, National Security College, Australian National University.
Routledge security in Asia Pacific series
Series Editors: Leszek Buszynski
International University of Japan
and
William Tow
Australian National University
Security issues have become more prominent in the Asia Pacific region because of the presence of global players, rising great powers, and confident middle powers, which intersect in complicated ways. This series puts forward important new work on key security issues in the region. It embraces the roles of the major actors, their defense policies and postures and their security interaction over the key issues of the region. It includes coverage of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, the Koreas, as well as the middle powers of ASEAN and South Asia. It also covers issues relating to environmental and economic security as well as transnational actors and regional groupings.
1 Bush and Asia
Americas evolving relations with East Asia
Edited by Mark Beeson
2 Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security
Edited by Brad Williams and Andrew Newman
3 Regional Cooperation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia
The impact of domestic forces
Edited by Edward Friedman and Sung Chull Kim
4 Energy Security in Asia
Edited by Michael Wesley
5 Australia as an Asia Pacific Regional Power
Friendships in flux?
Edited by Brendan Taylor
6 Securing Southeast Asia
The politics of security sector reform
Mark Beeson and Alex J. Bellamy
7 Pakistans Nuclear Weapons
Bhumitra Chakma
8 Human Security in East Asia
Challenges for collaborative action
Edited by Sorpong Peou
9 Security and International Politics in the South China Sea
Towards a co-operative management regime
Edited by Sam Bateman & Ralf Emmers
10 Japans Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia
Seeking a more active political role
Lam Peng Er
11 Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia
Ralf Emmers
12 North Koreas Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 19662008
Narushige Michishita
13 Political Change, Democratic Transitions and Security in Southeast Asia
Mely Caballero- Anthony
14 American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific
Brendan Taylor
15 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power
Between rising naval powers
Edited by Sam Bateman and Joshua Ho
16 Human Security in Southeast Asia
Yukiko Nishikawa
17 ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia
Ralf Emmers
18 India as an Asia Pacific Power
David Brewster
19 ASEAN Regionalism
Cooperation, values and institutionalization
Christopher B. Roberts
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Roberts, Christopher B.
ASEAN regionalism: cooperation, values and institutionalisation/ Christopher B. Roberts.
p. cm. (Routledge security in Asia Pacific series; 19)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ASEAN. 2. RegionalismSoutheast Asia. 3. Southeast AsiaForeign relations. I. Title. II. Series: Routledge security in Asia Pacific series; 19. DS520.A873R64 2012
341.2473dc23
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