ASEAN’s Cooperative Security Enterprise: Norms and Interests in the ASEAN Regional Forum (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

Aseans Security Enterprise Explores The Significance Of Aseans Cooperative Security Enterprise The Questions Of Whether And In What Sense This Enterprise Matters--provided By Publisher. Does The Cooperative Security Enterprise Of The Association Of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) Matter? If So, In What Sense? Can The Asean Regional Forum (arf) Be Regarded As One Of The Pathways To Regional Security In Asia? Most Students Of Asian Security Regard The Arf As A Useless 'talking Shop' In Which No Significant Measure To Achieve Security Has Been Instituted. However, This Book Demonstrates That Something Interesting Is Taking Place Inside This Talking Shop. It Shows That An Association Of Minor Powers In Southeast Asia Is Promoting Its Cooperative Security Norm, Thereby Influencing The Policies Of Its External Partners, Such As China, The Us And Australia. The Overarching Conclusion Of This Book Is That Asean's Cooperative Security Enterprise Does Matter, And The Arf Is An Important Pathway To Regional Security. Such A Conclusion Suggests That Asean's Cooperative Security Enterprise Is A Reasonable Model For Security Cooperation In An East Asian Community. Part I: Introduction And Main Propositions -- Introduction -- Significance Of The Arf -- Part Ii : Asean's Initiative -- Conventional Explanation For The Establishment Of The Arf -- Idea-focused Explanation For The Establishment Of The Arf -- Asean In The Arf -- Part Iii: External Powers In The Arf -- China -- United States -- Australia -- Part Iv: Conclusion -- East Asia And The Asia-pacific. Hiro Katsumata. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Katsumata demonstrates that something interesting is taking place inside the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). He shows that an association of minor powers in Southeast Asia is promoting its cooperative security norm, and influencing the policies of its external partners. Thus, the ARF is one of the important pathways to regional security. Does the cooperative security enterprise of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) matter? If so, in what sense? Can the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) be regarded as one of the pathways to regional security in Asia? Most students of Asian security regard the ARF as a useless 'talking shop' in which no significant measure to achieve security has been instituted. However, this book demonstrates that something interesting is taking place inside this talking shop. It shows that an association of minor powers in Southeast Asia is promoting its cooperative security norm, thereby influencing the policies of its external partners, such as China, the US and Australia. The overarching conclusion of this book is that ASEAN's cooperative security enterprise does matter, and the ARF is an important pathway to regional security. Such a conclusion suggests that ASEAN's cooperative security enterprise is a reasonable model for security cooperation in an East Asian community Katsumata's book offers a thorough investigation and valuable insights into ... questions which are critical to any understanding of contemporary Asian security order ... [the] book is an important counterpoint to the conventional realist view of international and regional institutions as mere adjuncts of balance of power dynamics. His rejection of the view of the ARF as a mere 'talking shop' will both provoke and persuade. Combining valuable empirical research and tight argumentation, Katsumata systematically demonstrates the effects of the ARF on the US, China, and Australia. His book offers several interesting insights into how the region's two major players, the US and China, came to accept the ARF from an initial posture of skepticism and even rejection ... He has emerged as the best Japanese scholar on the ARF, and his work is sure to be regarded as one of the most important contributions to Asia Pacific security multilateralism - From the foreword by Amitav Acharya, Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington DC, USA This collection presents a nuanced and varied picture of the state of democracy in Asia, using the findings from a pioneering study, the Asia Democracy Initiative, to explore the role of ordinary people in democratization through the rise of expressive social values. The volume shows how and why factors such as the emergence of the middle class, civil society organizations or non-electoral participation, do not seem to play the role that democratic theory suggests. The findings from Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand, reveal how unique the region's paths to democracy are, in comparison to other regions, and particularly those of western liberal democracies, but also the substantial progress needed before transitional democracies become fully consolidated across Asia.--Provided by publisher Machine generated contents note: PART I: INTRODUCTION AND MAIN PROPOSITIONS * Introduction * Significance of the ARF * PART II: ASEANS INITIATIVE * Origin of the ARF * Conventional Understanding of the Origin of the ARF * ASEAN in the ARF * PART III: EXTERNAL POWERS IN THE ARFChina * US * Australia * PART IV: CONCLUSION * East Asia and the Asia-Pacific PART I: INTRODUCTION AND MAIN PROPOSITIONS * Introduction * Significance of the ARF * PART II: ASEANS INITIATIVE * Origin of the ARF * Conventional Understanding of the Origin of the ARF * ASEAN in the ARF * PART III: EXTERNAL POWERS IN THE ARFChina * US * Australia * PART IV: CONCLUSION * East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-15 The Significance of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)....Pages 16-34 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 The Conventional Explanation for the Establishment of the ARF....Pages 37-48 An Idea-focused Explanation for the Establishment of the ARF....Pages 49-76 ASEAN in the ARF....Pages 77-97 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 China....Pages 101-118 The United States....Pages 119-137 Australia....Pages 138-158 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 East Asia and the Asia-Pacific....Pages 161-173 Back Matter....Pages 174-204 Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Lee dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, and pioneers a new approach to the understanding of regional politics in Southeast Asia Since the late 1990s, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has countered a myriad of 'outlaw' threats at sea including piracy, terrorism, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the threat posed by 'rogue states'. Japan's innovative strategy has transformed maritime security governance in Southeast Asia and beyond.