The ASEAN paradox and IR theory -- Why ASEAN? Why 1967? -- The ideas that bind : negotiating ASEAN's ways -- The politics and rhetoric of "one Southeast Asia"--Locating ASEAN in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific -- ASEAN of and beyond Southeast Asia : renegotiating ASEAN's role for…
"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 g…
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…
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding…
The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security, and the roles of relevant actors beyond the states of ASEAN and the key interactions that have evolved over time, which have been instrumental in moving regional mechanisms beyond the A…
The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes …
This book explores the connections between popular music genres and politics in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Over the past several decades the countries of Southeast Asia have reverberated to the musi…
This book explores the connections between popular music genres and politics in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Over the past several decades the countries of Southeast Asia have reverberated to the music…
