ASEAN Regionalism: Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

ISBN-13: 9780415856645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 262 str.

Christopher B. Roberts

Opis

This volume examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It covers the full range of issues confronting ASEAN, and discusses both the developments in ASEAN to date and the ones likely to take place in the future.

Spis treści

1. Security, Cooperation and Identity in International Relations  2. The Rise of Southeast Asia and the Search for Regional Order  3. ASEAN through to the Third Decade: Institutional Responses and Expansion  4. Testing ASEAN Cohesion: Security and Economic Challenges  5. Political Transitions, Changing Values and Visions for the Future  6. Myanmar In Asean: The Key Challenge to Cohesion and the ASEAN Way?  7. Regionalism Anew? Institutional Outcomes and the Limitations to Change  Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospects 

O autorze

Christopher B. Roberts is a Senior Lecturer at the National Security College within the Australian National University. He is also a Visiting Fellow with UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy and has previously been employed as an academic at the University of Canberra as well as the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Having lived in Japan and Singapore for over five years, Christopher has extensive field experience in Asia including all the ASEAN nations. Christopher specialises in Southeast Asian security, politics and institutional developments. He has received various awards for his research including the Australian government’s ‘Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award’ in 2005. Between 2005 and 2007 Christopher also undertook two region-wide surveys examining elite and grassroots perceptions concerning regional threat perceptions, levels of trust, political values and notions of kinship and identity. Aside from an earlier book entitled ‘ASEAN’s Myanmar Crisis’ (ISEAS), Christopher has completed more than thirty other journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, commentaries and reports on issues relevant to the politics and security of the Asia-Pacific.