ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter |20 pages

ASEAN Through to the Third Decade

Institutional Responses and Expansion

chapter |29 pages

Testing ASEAN Cohesion

Security and Economic Challenges

chapter |20 pages

Myanmar in ASEAN

The Key Challenge to Cohesion and the ASEAN Way?

chapter |27 pages

Regionalism Anew?

Institutional Outcomes and the Limitations to Change

chapter |14 pages

Conclusion

Retrospect and Prospects