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(Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Contributor(s): Ba, Alice D. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0804760705     ISBN-13: 9780804760706
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE: $33.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2009
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Annotation: Tracing ASEAN debates about Southeast Asia's intra- and extra-regional relations over four decades, this book argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds light on intervening processes of argument and debate, and highlights interacting material, ideational, and social forces in the construction of regions and regionalisms in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, and East Asia.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations - General
Dewey: 341.247
LCCN: 2008047523
Series: Studies in Asian Security (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.2" L (1.00 lbs) 344 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2009
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 43
 
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Publisher Description:
This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of lesser, self-identified Southeast Asian powers gone beyond its original regional purview to shape the form and content of Asian Pacific and East Asian regionalisms? According to Alice Ba, the answers lie in ASEAN's founding arguments: arguments that were premised on an assumed regional disunity. She demonstrates how these arguments draw critical causal connections that make Southeast Asian regionalism a necessary response to problems, give rise to its defining informality and consensus-seeking process, and also constrain ASEAN's regionalism. Tracing debates about ASEAN's intra- and extra-regional relations over four decades, she argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds light on intervening processes of argument and debate, and highlights interacting material, ideational, and social forces in the construction of regions and regionalisms.
 
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