The Elgar Companion to ASEAN

Edited by Jörn Dosch, Professor and Chair of International Politics and Development Cooperation, Department of Political Science, University of Rostock, Germany and Frederick Kliem, Research Fellow and Lecturer, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Contents:

Preface – Reflection xii
1 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations: an introduction 1
Jörn Dosch and Frederick Kliem

PART I ASEAN INSIDE OUT
2 International relations theory and ASEAN: from international system
and estrangement to local innovation 17
Alan Chong
3 ASEAN’s institution building after the Charter: the false promise of
a rules-based community 35
Hoang Thi Ha
4 An ASEAN identity 49
Eric C. Thompson and Apichai Sunchindah
5 Regional economic integration: the ASEAN Economic Community and beyond 62
Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit
6 ASEAN and conflict management 76
Jürgen Haacke
7 ASEAN’s governance and management of non-traditional security 93
Jörn Dosch
8 ASEAN – a case of illiberal regional democracy 108
Jürgen Rüland
9 Between the eagle and the panda: ASEAN’s perspectives on human rights 122
Barry Desker
10 Track-two diplomacy and ASEAN community building 136
Vannarith Chheang
11 The critical role of peoples and the idea of civil society in ASEAN 151
Kevin Henry Villanueva

PART II ASEAN OUTSIDE IN
12 ASEAN in a changing region: from the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific 163
Frederick Kliem
13 ASEAN’s dialogue mechanisms: institutionalising the quest for
ASEAN centrality 177
Cheng-Chwee Kuik and Fikry A. Rahman
14 Changing conditions, changing roles: ASEAN in Southeast Asia–China
relations 196
Alice D. Ba
15 The United States and ASEAN 210
Prashanth Parameswaran
16 Regional middle powers and ASEAN: Japan, Australia, and India 221
Jatswan S. Sidhu
17 Inter-regionalism: the European Union and ASEAN 233
Yeo Lay Hwee
18 ASEAN’s role in global multilateral forums 245
Albert Triwibowo
19 Conclusion 264
Frederick Kliem and Jörn Dosch

Index