New Challenges for Asean Emerging Policy Issues

by Acharya, Amitav; Acharya, Amitav; Stubbs, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780774805216
• ISBN10: 0774805218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Summary

Over the past decade, the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have experienced dramatic economic growth. But economic transformation has created a number of new policy challenges, which the ASEAN governments must address as they prepare for the twenty-first century.
New Challenges for ASEAN examines some of the most important policy issues confronting ASEAN governments. These include the degradation of the maritime and urban environments, new strains on inter-ethnic relations, domestic and international pressures to ensure the protection of human rights, growing barriers to trade with the outside world, and security concerns arising from a changing regional balance of power. The responses of the ASEAN governments to these challenges, at domestic, regional, and international levels, are critically examined by a group of experts with longstanding interest in Southeast Asian affairs.

Table of Contents

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Preface
Introduction: New Policy Challenges	p. 3
Transboundary Ocean and Atmospheric Pollution in Southeast Asia: Prospects for Regional Cooperation	p. 11
Managing the Environment in ASEAN: The Case of Extended Urban Regions	p. 47
Managing Multicultural Societies: The Status of Minority Groups in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand	p. 73
Human Rights in ASEAN States: A Canadian Policy Perspective	p. 115
ASEAN Policy Responses to North American and European Trading Agreements	p. 146
ASEAN and Asia-Pacific Multilateralism: Managing Regional Security	p. 182
Statistical Appendix	p. 203
Contributors	p. 212
Index	p. 213
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