ASEAN's Cooperative Security Enterprise: Norms and Interests in the ASEAN regional Forum (Critical Studies of the Asian 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 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.