Regional Community Building in East Asia Countries in Focus

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Synopsis

This volume is a collection of papers written by nationals or former nationals of the respective country in ASEAN and Northeast Asia. Unlike other works written by scholars outside ASEAN or East Asia, it offers an insider’s point of view of the 10 ASEAN states, China, Japan and South Korea on regional community building. While a nationalist perspective may permeate throughout the study, it is also clear that pursuing regional cooperation is considered to be important by the respective author, denoting the non-exclusivity between nationalism and regionalism and the mutual reinforcement of the two.

Each author of this volume has made a deliberate effort to introduce and survey the developmental challenges and experiences of his or her country from a historical perspective. All authors, without exception, have emphasized the importance and advantages in staying with ASEAN or linking up with ASEAN by China, Japan and South Korea in political-security, economic and socio-cultural terms. Their papers also reveal that the self-help and self-strengthening mechanism emphasized by the ASEAN Plus Three process will take time to bear fruits. In the meantime, it seems that bilateral interactions and cooperation between ASEAN and Northeast Asian states remain to be more dominant as shown in this study. One can argue that bilateral interactions are the building block of multilateralism interactions. To be sure, there is a deliberate effort in this study to highlight "unity in diversity" in East Asia in general and ASEAN in particular.

Book details

Series:
Politics in Asia
Author:
Lee, Zarina Othman, Lai To
ISBN:
9781317265559
Related ISBNs:
9781138640436, 9781138604643, 9781315636610
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
326
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-05-10
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
Lee Lai To and Zarina Othman 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies