ASEAN Regionalism Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation [Paperback]

This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN. It also explores how the patterns of interaction and socialization generated by these issues, together with the nature of domestic political systems, have affected the emergence of common values, norms and interests. It covers the full range of issues confronting ASEAN at present, and the full range of ASEAN countries, and discusses both developments in ASEAN to date and also likely future developments.

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 

Chris Roberts tells the story of ASEAN and of Southeast Asia in an engaging and masterful way. This book is rich in detail not only of events but of the people and places and interactions leading to them. Yet it has a comprehensive sweep  encompassing contemporary inter-state relations as well as theory, history, domestic politics, interests, perceptions, identity and much more. This is a must-read for any student, scholar, or practitioner interested in Southeast Asia and its project of regional community building. - Professor Aileen Baviera, Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Manila.

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