ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the evolution of regionalism and regionalization efforts in East Asia, and especially those related to security. It examines the “securitization” of economic relations between the US and the region under the Bush Doctrine, and explores regional approaches to terrorism after 9/11. It also looks at how War on Terror security narratives reinforced an “Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-way” of “comprehensive security” as the means by which the concepts of “regional resilience” and “national resilience” are deployed by governing elites in order to maintain regime security in a variety of repressive ways. Regionalization refers to the processes that are responsible for building concrete patterns of transactions and relationships within a regional space. The ideational aspects of Southeast Asian regionalism, or the values, norms, and goals that are widely accepted by members of ASEAN, have developed over a lengthy period of time.
