The making of Southeast Asia international relations of a region

The idea of the 'nation' is a Western concept which has been applied to Southeast Asia. It is a project which has been in progress since the last century but is still incomplete. Various theoretical frameworks which are associated with nation and nation-building in the Southeast Asian regi...

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Main Author: Acharya, Amitav (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore Oxford University Press [2012]
Series:Cornell studies in political economy
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : region, regionalism and regional identity
  • Imagined communities and socially constructed regions
  • Imagining Southeast Asia
  • Nationalism, regionalism and the Cold War order
  • The evolution of regional organization
  • Southeast Asia divided : polarization and reconciliation
  • Constructing "one Southeast Asia"
  • Globalization and the crisis of regional identity
  • Whither Southeast Asia?
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author