APSC: Dynamic Region in Integrated World
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| Rethinking ASEAN and Its Reponses to a Changing Asia-Pacific: 27th Asia-Pacific Roundtable on 3-5 June 2013 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Dewa, Pehin Orang Kaya Pekerma | Reports the address of Phin Orang Kaya Pekerma Dewa Dato Seri Setia Lim Jock Seng, a Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei. Reviews historical background of ASEAN concerning disputes that Southeast Asian countries had faced, and the cooperation for peace and stability in the region through ASEAN. Presents the role of ASEAN in the changing architecture of the Asia-Pacific region. Argues that ASEAN will continue to play a signif ...Continue Reading | English | 87293 |
| The Balance of Forces in Asia: Recent Trends and Implications for Regional Stability: 27th Asia-Pacific Roundtable on 3-5 June 2013 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Locklea, Admiral Samuel J. III | Reports Asia-Pacific Roundtable Speech of Admiral Samuel J. Locklear, Commander of U.S Pacific Command. Introduces complex relationships between various elements of national power including, diplomacy, economy, law, and security. Describes security as the most important element for stable security environment, and for the implementation of other elements. Presents the diverse group of complex challenges includes environmental impact and natural ...Continue Reading | English | 87292 |
| Japan and the Origins of ASEAN+6: An Agent-Structure Analysis | Terada, Takashi | Explores the reasons behind Japan's interest in the promotion of ASEAN+6 as an 'expanded East Asian' regional concept despite the existence of ASEAN+3 as an effective framework for regional cooperation. Reviews the background of new regional concept of ASEAN+6. Examines the causal factors behind Japan's advocacy of ASEAN+6, focusing on the effect of the changes in the regional structure on Japan. Presents the internal division of Japanese stat ...Continue Reading | English | 87278 |
| Still in the Drivers Seat , But for How Long?: ASEAN's Capacity for Leadership in East-Asian International Relations | Jones, Lee | Evaluates the capacity of the ASEAN to moderate great-power relations in East Asia, especially in light of recent regional developments that have challenged ASEAN's traditional modus operandi and its corporate cohesion. Argues that the capacity emerges not from institutional arrangements but rather the social relationships that give rise to particular institutions. Explores the relationships among regional great powers. Presents the relationsh ...Continue Reading | English | 87273 |
| Conference Report: The 26th Asia-Pacific Roundtable on Asian Security Governance and Order 28-30 May 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Asia-pacific Roundtable on Asian Security Governance and Order (26th : 2012 : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) | Reports the 26th Asia-Pacific Roundtable in 2012. Reviews Asian security which has gone through significant change over time. Discusses the involvement of big power countries and presents current regional security order involving the rise of China, the US and the implication of both for Sino-US relations. Considers the South China Sea issues as regional security which ASEAN takes role to find solution with China. Introduces roles of middle po ...Continue Reading | English | 87265 |
| ASEAN Economic Bulletin | Consists of three research articles and two research notes concerning economy in ASEAN. Examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on wages paid by domestic private firms in Vietnam. Describes the export tax policy on crude palm oil (CPO) imposed by the Indonesian government and analyzes the effect of the export tax on Indonesian's CPO export competitiveness compared with Malaysia, the main competitor. Studies the existence of a cau ...Continue Reading | English | 87219 | |
| ASEAN and Human Rights Norms: Constructivism, Rational Choice, and the Action-Identity Gap | Davies, Mathew | Argues that an alternative, rational choice, framework for appraising norms within ASEAN offers greater explanatory insight into how and why human rights emerged into ASEAN after 1997. Examines the history of academic interest about norms within ASEAN and describes when the constructivist perspective came to dominate. Presents the action-identity gap that has emerged surrounding human rights norms, paying attention to the motives of ASEAN in eng ...Continue Reading | English | 87093 |
| Promoting Diplomatic or Cosmopolitan Culture?: Interrogating ASEAN-Focused Communication Initiatives | Quayle, Linda | Examines a range of regional communication initiatives from cartoons and computer games to Facebook communities and curriculum by using the diplomatic/cosmopolitan dyad. Analyzes key concepts of international society, cosmopolitan culture, and identity expanding on the communicational goals of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). Considers a variety of specific attempts to familiarize the citizens of Southeast Asian with what ASEAN has to ...Continue Reading | English | 87049 |
| Same Bed, Different Dreams: Prospects and Challenges for ASEAN+'X' Forums | Min Gyo Koo | Explores the prospects and challenges for ASEAN+ X forums: ASEAN+1, +3, +8 (or the East Asian Summit). Examines the U.S.'s new appetite for Asia-Pacific minilateralism centered on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). Reviews the security-embedded economic relations during the Cold War period under the U.S. hegemonic leadership and explains East Asia's responses to the de-securitization of U. ...Continue Reading | English | 87039 |
| ASEAN Community: Security Dimension | Describes background of ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) and ADMM-Plus. Deals with ADMM's mechanism, the progress of the meetings and frameworks. Summarizes activities and cooperation on non-traditional security, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, peacekeeping centres network, counter-terrorism, and military medicine. Mentions background and activities of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). | Thai | 87008 | |
| Same but Different? : Comparing the ASEAN and SAARC Frameworks | Syeda Sana Rahman | Compares ASEAN's ability to manage inter-state conflicts in Southeast Asia to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's (SAARC) ability to deal with inter-state conflicts in South Asia. Examines ASEAN's establishment and growth during the Cold War and its expansion in the post-Cold War era. Discusses the first phase of SAARC's existence and its challenges of bilateral tensions among its member states. Presents the disability of SA ...Continue Reading | English | 86984 |
| The China Plus One Strategy : A Signal of the Next Step of China's Economic Development | Nellan, Amrietha | Discusses the economic growth of China which needs strategy, China plus one strategy, to maintain this economic growth by instigating a new direction of the Chinese economy away from low-end manufacturing into high-end manufacturing and services. Reviews background of the 'China plus one strategy'. Presents the strategy concerning China's commitments to expand its cooperation with WTO and ASEAN. Studies the involvement of Chinese government in ...Continue Reading | English | 86979 |
| Narrowing the Development Gap: Policy Recommendations for ASEAN and Development Partners | Carpenter, David | Outlines policy recommendations and activities that ASEAN should give priorities in order to narrow the development gap between the ASEAN-6 and CLMV countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam). Introduces eight drivers of the development gap in ASEAN such as physical capital, openness to trade, human capital, financial sector's development, governance, labor mobility, foreign direct investment and external development finance. Suggests ...Continue Reading | English | 86977 |
| Regional Development Cooperation and Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN | Carpenter, David | Identifies Regional Development Cooperation (RDC) activities that can contribute to a narrowing of the development gap in complementarity with bilateral and multilateral initiatives. Gives an overview of a complex landscape of development actors working with bilateral, multilateral level with low-income ASEAN members, particularly CLMV countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam) that traditionally depend on OECD-DAC donors and Southern d ...Continue Reading | English | 86976 |
| Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN: Context and Approach | Carpenter, David | Gives an overview of the diversity of development gap in ASEAN member states. Considers greater understanding and more informed responses to narrowing the ASEAN development gap by identifying drivers of this gap and suggesting policies that directly target the drivers. Presents the history of ASEAN and its policies regarding regional economic integration and the narrowing of the development gap agenda. Introduces background regarding the struc ...Continue Reading | English | 86972 |
| ASEAN Regional Cooperation on Competition Policy | Lee, Cassey | Reviews ASEAN regional cooperation on competition policy in term of the implementation of the priority actions identified in the AEC blueprint. Discusses the role of competition policy in the AEC. Presents the implementation and enforcement of competition law in ASEAN countries. Describes the comprehensive implementation of competition laws of some ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Provides assessm ...Continue Reading | English | 86920 |
| The Utility and Kimits of the 'European Model' for the Regional Institutionalization of East Asia | Higgott, Richard | Reviews literature of European Model for the regional institutionalization of East Asia. Discusses the current state of the theory and practice of regionalism in comparative perspective. Analyzes the ways of relevant contemporary European institutional cooperation for understanding the way forward in East Asia. Outlines important lessons from and for East Asia with the framework of 'the new regionalism', and the importance of leadership to the ...Continue Reading | English | 86914 |
| Middle Powers and the Building of Regional Order: Australia and South Korea Compared | Hundt, David | Compares two middle powers, Australia and the Republic of Korea during the transition to a new regional order in the Asia-Pacific as both countries have been allies of the United States. Examines how Australia and South Korea have contributed to the building of a new region order. Reviews the concept of order and the variant of order which ASEAN-the self-appointed vanguard of regionalism in the Asian-Pacific-has proposed. Considers the role of FT ...Continue Reading | English | 86910 |
| East Asian Community Building | Wei Pan | Addresses three issues concerning East Asian community building such as obstacle to the progress of building the East Asian community and new theories. Presents the institutionalized close economic linkages between China, Japan, South Korea, and ASEAN countries.Considers China as the engine for the East Asian economic community and a problem for community building in global context. Discusses a new theory of international relations to provide a ...Continue Reading | English | 86908 |
| Reflections on Defence Security in East Asia | Ball, Desmond | Reviews the East Asian experience with the construction of defence-related architecture to date. Discusses recent developments of defence security in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and European Union (EU). Describes the recent history of the ASEAN-led forums for defence dialogue and cooperation which contributes to the identification and elucidation of the principal elements of a Southeast Asian defence model. Presents the functi ...Continue Reading | English | 86821 |
