Asean and East Asian international relations regional delusion

Academic and accepted orthodoxy maintains that Southeast Asia, and Asia generally, is evolving into a distinctive East Asian regional order. This book questions this claim and reveals instead uncertainty and incoherence at the heart of ASEAN, the region's foremost institution. The authors provi...

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Main Authors: Jones, David Martin (Author), Smith, M. L. R. (Michael Lawrence Rowan) 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Northhampton, MA Edward Elgar [2006]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Delusions of Aseanology: Exploring the Sovietology of Southeast Asian Studies
  • 2. An Imitation Community for Imitation States: ASEAN and the Region that Never Was
  • 3. Asia Rising (Again): ASEAN and the Illusion of an Asian Model of Economic Development
  • 4. The Contradictions in the Political Economy of East Asian Regionalism
  • 5. A Delusion Transformed: ASEAN and East Asian Regionalism
  • 6. Constructing and Deconstructing Regions: Australia's Engagement with 'Asia'
  • 7. Political Illiberalism and the War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Problems of the Surveillance State
  • Conclusion: It's No Fun at the A.S.E.A.N.