Hard Choices

by Emmerson, Donald K.

• ISBN13: 9781931368131
• ISBN10: 1931368139
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Summary

"Southeast Asia faces hard choices. The region's most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism." "How will its new Charter affect ASEAN's ability to make these hard choices? How is regionalism being challenged by transnational crime, infectious disease, and other border-jumping threats to human security in Southeast Asia? Why have regional leaders failed to stop the perennial regional "haze" from brush fires in democratic Indonesia? Docs democracy help or hinder nuclear energy security in the legion?" "In this timely book - the second of a three-book series focused on Asian regionalism - ten analysts from six countries address these and other pressing questions that Southeast Asia faces in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. IX
Acknowledgments	p. XI
Acronyms and Note on References to the ASEAN Charter	p. XV
Foreword	p. XIX
Introduction
Critical Terms: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia	p. 3
Assessments
Sovereignty Rules: Human Security, Civil Society, and the Limits of Liberal Reform	p. 59
Institutional Reform: One Charter, Three Communities, Many Challenges	p. 91
Issues
Political Development: A Democracy Agenda for ASEAN?	p. 135
ASEAN's Pariah: Insecurity and Autocracy in Myanmar (Burma)	p. 151
Challenging Change: Nontraditional Security, Democracy, and Regionalism	p. 191
Blowing Smoke: Regional Cooperation, Indonesian Democracy, and the Haze	p. 219
Bypassing Regionalism? Domestic Politics and Nuclear Energy Security	p. 241
Arguments
Toward Relative Decency: The Case for Prudence	p. 265
Toward Responsible Sovereignty: The Case for Intervention	p. 292
Text of the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations	p. 315
Bibliography	p. 341
Index	p. 369
About the Contributors	p. 393
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