Regionalism in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415475235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009

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Opis

Especially since the end of the Cold War, research on and around the international relations of Asia has grown exponentially and, to make sense of what is now a vast and unwieldly corpus of scholarly literature, this new four-volume collection from Routledge’s Critical Issues in Modern Politics series brings together the best and most influential work in the field.

The first of the four volumes explores ASEAN and international relations theory. Volume II, meanwhile, focuses on the Association’s history and evolution from 1967 to the present day. Volume III examines pan-Asian intergovernmental regionalisms by collecting the most important thinking on the ‘new regionalism’. Vital questions addressed here include the nature of Asian intergovernmental institutions; the overall lack of strategic coherence; whether aims and agendas overlap; conflict or complement; and the implications for the region as a whole. Finally, Volume IV brings together crucial work on non-governmental or unofficial multilateral processes to examine the regionalization processes in Asia and the efficacy of these bottom-up processes in influencing policy and regional security discourse.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, this Routledge collection is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers of Asian international relations, politics, history, and current affairs as a vital resource.

Spis treści

Volume I: International Relations Theory and ASEAN  Part 1. Studying Southeast Asia  Part 2. Explaining ASEAN: Competing/Congruent Theories  Part 3. Is ASEAN a Security Community?  Part 4. Rationalism vs. Constructivism  Volume II: ASEAN and Regional Security of Southeast Asia  Part 5. ASEAN Evolution: From ‘Pre-birth’ to ‘Adolescence’ to ‘Young Adulthood’ to ‘Mid-Life’  Part 6. ASEAN Regionalism: The ASEAN Way  Part 7. ASEAN Enlargement: Challenges and Prospects  Part 8. ASEAN Conflict Prevention: The Search for Peace  Part 9. ASEAN Extra-regionalism: Engaging the Great Powers  Volume III: Regional Order and Architecture in Asia  Part 10. Regional Environment of Asia  Part 11. Multilateral Ideas and Institutions in Asia  Part 12. Debating the ARF  Part 13. Debating the AFTA, APEC, and ASEAN+3  Volume IV: Non-official Diplomacy and Activism in Asia  Part 14. Regional Security Discourse in Asia  Part 15. ‘Track 2’ Contributions to Regional Security  Part 16. ‘Track 3’ Contributions to Regional Security  Part 17. State: Civil Society Dilemmas