Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer

by Emmers; Ralf

• ISBN13: 9780415363655
• ISBN10: 0415363659
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business in the region. He also inspired many new students of the region, an impressively large number of whom are now leading figures in their own right in the study of Southeast Asian international relations. In this important book many of Michael Leifer's students, colleagues and friends come together to explore the key themes of Michael's work, and to discuss the contributions he made. The particular themes explored include the notion of 'order' - a key theme in Michael Leifer's work, a concept never fully defined; the institutions concerned with regional order, especially ASEAN and the ASEAN Regional Forum, which Michael viewed as being only limited in their effectiveness; maritime security and its management, a little studied, but highly important, aspect of Southeast Asian Security,where the interests of China potentially conflict with those of Southeast Asian states; and the making of foreign policy within particular states, where Michael Leifer emphasised the important role of the different worldviews of different states. The book concludes with an overall assessment of Michael Leifer's contribution to the study of Southeast Asian international politics.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xxi
1 Introduction	1	(9)
JOSEPH CHINYONG LIOW AND RALF EMMERS
Regional order, balance of power and the English School
2 Shocks of recognition: Leifer, realism, and regionalism in Southeast Asia	10	(19)
DONALD K. EMMERSON
3 Michael Leifer and the pre-requisites of regional order in Southeast Asia	29	(17)
YUEN FOONG KHONG
4 Michael Leifer, the balance of power and international relations theory	46	(15)
JÜRGEN HAACKE
5 Untying Leifer's discourse on order and power	61	(17)
SEE SENG TAN
Institutions and multilateralism
6 Do norms and identity matter? Community and power in Southeast Asia's regional order	78	(15)
AMITAV ACHARYA
7 Realism and regionalism in Southeast Asia: The ARF and the war on terror	93	(17)
SHELDON SIMON
8 Nationalism and multilateralism in Chinese foreign policy: implications for Southeast Asia	110	(17)
CHRISTOPHER R. HUGHES
Maritime security
9 Michael Leifer and the security of Southeast Asia's maritime thoroughfares	127
ALAN CHONG
Foreign and security policy-making
10 Singapore's strategic outlook and defence policy	141	(20)
TIM HUXLEY
11 Michael Leifer on Cambodia and the Third Indochina Conflict	161	(14)
ANG CHENG GUAN
12 Domestic security priorities, "balance of interests" and Indonesia's management of regional order	175	(21)
LEONARD C. SEBASTIAN
13 Michael Leifer's reflections on the foreign policy of Singapore	196	(16)
CHIN KIN WAH
14 The domestic sources of regional order in Michael Leifer's analysis of Southeast Asia	212	(16)
JAMES COTTON
Leifer and the study of Southeast Asia
15 Michael Leifer's contribution to Southeast Asian studies	228	(9)
MICHAEL YAHUDA
Index	237