The politics of economic regionalism: explaining regional economic integratio…

While major theories of economic regionalism are primarily constructed to explore institutionalized regional integration, in particular European integration, the analytical framework developed in this work explains the processes and patterns of regional integration in East Asia

Regionalism, globalisation and international order: Europe and Southeast Asia

Offering a comparative historical perspective of European and Southeast Asian regionalism, this illuminating study presents new and imaginative insights into the theory and practice of regionalism and the links between regional developments, globalization and international order

ASEAN and East Asian international relations: regional delusion

Academic and accepted orthodoxy maintains that Southeast Asia, and Asia generally, is evolving into a distinctive East Asian regional order. This book questions this claim and aims to reveal instead uncertainty and incoherence at the heart of ASEAN, the region's foremost institution.

Food culture in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian cuisines, such as Thai, have become quite popular in the United States even though immigrant numbers are low. The food is appealing because it is tasty, attractive, and generally healthful, with plentiful vegetables, fish, noodles, and rice. Food Culture in Southeast Asia is a richly informative overview of the food and foodways of the mainland countries including Burma, Thailan…

Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United…

In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying to come to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed by the Second World War. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation--a crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, 'as dangerous a situation in South East Asia as we have seen since the war'--was a complex test of Anglo-American relations. As Americ…

Globalisation, domestic politics, and regionalism: the ASEAN Free Trade Area

This book examines the relationship between globalisation and regionalism through a detailed analysis of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) project. It analyses how the interaction between globalisation and domestic politics shaped the evolution of AFTA over the past 10 years, arguing that although AFTA was triggered primarily by the pressures of globalisation, it was a tussle between the imperat…

Political participation and ethnic minorities: Chinese overseas in Malaysia, …

From New York City's Chinatown to urban Indonesia, there are fifty-five million ethnic Chinese living outside of China. Their strong sense of community, along with their considerable economic clout, makes them a compelling group with which to study immigrant political participation. Amy Freedman's empirical study examines the hows and whys of Chinese overseas political activity in three dive…

Constructing a security community in Southeast Asia

In this book, Emmers addresses the key question: to what extent may the balance of power play a part in such cooperative security arrangements and in the calculations of the participants of ASEAN and the ART? He investigates the role of the power balance in detailed examinations of the creation of the forum, ASEAN's response to the Indochina conflict and the South China sea dispute.

Cooperative security and the balance of power in ASEAN and ARF

In this book, Emmers addresses the key question: to what extent may the balance of power play a part in such cooperative security arrangements and in the calculations of the participants of ASEAN and the ART? He investigates the role of the power balance in detailed examinations of the creation of the forum, ASEAN's response to the Indochina conflict and the South China sea dispute.

International relations in Southeast Asia: the struggle for autonomy

Edition

2nd ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780742556812

Collation

xx, 323 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

Series Title

Asia in world politics

Call Number

[POL-ASEA-07]