Michael Green - Asias New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community

Asias New Multilateralism

COOPERATION, COMPETITION, AND
THE SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY

Edited by Michael J. Green and Bates Gill

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Asias new multilateralism: cooperation, competition, and the search for
community/edited by Michael J. Green and Bates Gill.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-14442-1 (cloth: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-231-14443-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-231-51341-8 (e-book)

1. Asian cooperation. 2. AsiaForeign relations. I. Green, Michael J.

II. Gill, Bates.

JZ1720.A75 2009

327.5dc22 2008030820

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CONTENTS

3. Chinese Perspectives on Building an East Asian
Community in the Twenty-first Century

8. The Strong in the World of the Weak:
Southeast Asia in Asias Regional Architecture

9. Emerging Economic Architecture in Asia:
Opening or Insulating the Region?

10. Norms and Regional Architecture:
Multilateral Institution Building in Asia and
Its Impact on Governance and Democracy

12. Nontraditional Security and Multilateralism in Asia:
Reshaping the Contours of Regional Security Architecture

13. Challenges to Building an Effective Asia-Pacific
Security Architecture

Each of us has been grappling with the question of Asias emerging multilateralism for well more than a decade as a matter of both policy and scholarship. In 2006, we decided it was time for a rigorous analysis of exactly what is happening in the region and what the prospects for multilateral cooperation really are. We approached the Stanley Foundation because of its previous work on multilateral security concepts and were fortunate to receive its full support for this project. We began by organizing a conference in St. Michaels, Mary land, in November 2006 with leading experts from the region. The chapter authors in this volume produced excellent first drafts for that meeting, and we also benefited from the insights of nine other practitioners and scholars: Ellen Frost, Kazumasa Kusaka, Evan Medeiros, Derek Mitchell, Dan Rosen, Susan Sim, Hitoshi Tanaka, and observers James Green and Sugio Takahashi. We appreciate the hard work our authors and all the participants did at St. Michaels and especially thank Michael Schiffer at the Stanley Foundation for his support and intellectual partnership, which made the early stages of this book possible. We also benefited from two detailed and encouraging outside reviews and thank the anonymous scholars who took the time to conduct their thorough critique for Columbia University Press. Thanks also are due to our wonderful editor at Columbia University Press, Anne Routon, and to Annie Barva for her meticulous editing of the final draft.

At the Center for Strategic and International Studies, this project was shepherded by research associate Yuko Nakano, without whom we would never have finished. Our research and logistics team also included Akiko Pace, David Fedman, Yuhei Komatsu, and Fujihiko Hayashi, as well as Ashley Calkins of the Stanley Foundation. We also thank Chin-hao Huang at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for his research assistance.

We do not expect Asia to arrive at a neat multilateral architecture anytime soon, but we believe this book will provide a framework for understanding the fluid and often competitive process of institution building in Asia as it unfolds in the years ahead.