Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia (Politics in Asia)

Advancing The Regional Commons In The New East Asia Highlights A Number Of Interests Which Members Of Asean And Plus Three Countries Collectively Recognize. This Set Of Common Interests Includes Not Only Economic Development But Also Social Development. Written By Nationals In Their Respective Countries, The Different Chapters In This Volume Highlights The Different Foundations For Such Common Interests And These Reflect The Different Constructive Ways In Which Asean And Plus Three Countries Come To See A Multi-strand Cooperative Partnership. The Task Of Advancing The Regional Commons Will Involve Efforts To Recognise And Nurture Asean’s And Plus Three’s Common Interests In Terms Of Broad Social Development, Managing Regional Security Issues, The Development Of A Regional Infrastructure, And Ensuring Collective Progress For All Member Countries. Asean Becomes A Community In 2015 And The Idea Of Embracing, Protecting, Sustaining And Advancing The Regional Commons Become A Vital Process. Concurrently, Apt Has Also Realized That Its Contribution To The Achieving Goal Of Community And Promoting Regional Commons Is Absolutely Critical For Both Asean And The Plus Three Countries. Academics Will Find In This Volume A Clear Analytical Treatment Of Issues Which Regional Groupings Are Currently Facing And This Can Provide The Basis For A Comparative Analysis. This Volume Will Also Be Of Interest To Students And The General Public Looking For A Systematic Introduction To The Successful Implementation Of Cooperative Ventures And Also An Assessment Of The New Collaborative Energies Which Shape This Dynamic Region. Institutional activities have remarkably transformed East Asia, a region once known for the absence of regionalism and regime-building efforts. Yet the dynamics of this Asian institutionalization have remained an understudied area of research. This book offers one of the first scholarly attempts to clarify what constitutes institutionalization in East Asia and to systematically trace the origins, discern the features, and analyze the prospects of ongoing institutionalization processes in the world's most dynamic region. Institutionalizing East Asia comprises eight essays, grouped thematically into three sections. Part I considers East and Southeast Asia as focal points of inter-state exchanges and traces the institutionalization of inter-state cooperation first among the Southeast Asian states and then among those of the wider East Asia. Part II examines the institutionalization of regional collaboration in four domains: economy, security, natural disaster relief, and ethnic conflict management. Part III discusses the institutionalization dynamics at the sub-regional and inter-regional levels.0The essays in this book offer a useful source of reference for scholars and researchers specializing in East Asia, regional architecture, and institution-building in international relations. They will also be of interest to postgraduate and research students interested in ASEAN, the drivers and limits of international cooperation, as well as the role of regional multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region