ASEAN
ASEAN at 40 (Foreign Affairs.org)
The current state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) evokes both pessimism and hope. Skeptics see the organization -- founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore -- as increasingly irrelevant in the post-Cold War milieu and unable to confront the new enemies of a globalized world: currency speculators, pandemic viruses, and shadowy terrorist groups. To its harshest critics, ASEAN is little more than a quarrelsome bunch of peripheral nations too beholden to a nineteenth century view of national sovereignty to effectively cooperate and build a regional identity.....
Read more at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070815faupdate86481/amitav-acharya/asean-at-40-mid-life-rejuvenation.html
The Next Steps for Burma (Yaleglobal)
Western nations have tightened economic sanctions and ASEAN has expressed "revulsion" at Myanmar's repression of non-violent protests. Concrete actions must now follow the outrage. UN efforts to encourage talks on the country's constitution and renew humanitarian poverty relief, while positive, do not go far enough, argues Amitav Acharya, professor of global governance. Such steps alone would fail to achieve the fundamental goal of fostering political openness, beginning with the freeing of all political prisoners. He suggests new institutions that could reduce violence as well as overcome the reluctance of Burma's neighbors to pressure the junta: First, a contact group of pertinent and prominent countries should engage in continuous dialogue with the regime, pushing greater freedom for the Burmese people. Second, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be organized, offering incentives for military officers in Myanmar to break with the junta and refrain from attacking their own people. The international community holds mechanisms for moving beyond the rhetoric to create a more peaceful and democratic Burma....
Read more at: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=9882
Asia needs better ways to protect its people
SINGAPORE: The international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami has been prompt and generous, and some Asian countries - Japan, China, Singapore and India - made special contributions. But in general Asian countries have a long way to go in becoming significant providers of humanitarian assistance in the region, not to mention in the international community at large....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/15/opinion/edacharya.php
China's charm offensive in Southeast Asia
It's a time of hype in China-Southeast Asian relations. During the past year, the prime ministers of Malaysia and Thailand have vigorously denied that a rising China was or would be a threat to Asian stability and prosperity. David Kang argues in the journal International Security that Southeast Asian states may even be "bandwagoning" with China....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/11/08/edacharya_ed3_.php
Clash of Civilizations?No, of National Interests and Principles
"The swift collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan under the weight of American military power marks the defeat of one of the more prominent ideas to emerge from the ashes of the Cold War: Samuel Huntington's thesis about a "clash of civilizations."....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/01/10/edach_ed3_.php
Monday, April 21, 2008
Op-eds
ASEAN
ASEAN at 40 (Foreign Affairs.org)
The current state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) evokes both pessimism and hope. Skeptics see the organization -- founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore -- as increasingly irrelevant in the post-Cold War milieu and unable to confront the new enemies of a globalized world: currency speculators, pandemic viruses, and shadowy terrorist groups. To its harshest critics, ASEAN is little more than a quarrelsome bunch of peripheral nations too beholden to a nineteenth century view of national sovereignty to effectively cooperate and build a regional identity.....
Read more at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070815faupdate86481/amitav-acharya/asean-at-40-mid-life-rejuvenation.html
The Next Steps for Burma (Yaleglobal)
Western nations have tightened economic sanctions and ASEAN has expressed "revulsion" at Myanmar's repression of non-violent protests. Concrete actions must now follow the outrage. UN efforts to encourage talks on the country's constitution and renew humanitarian poverty relief, while positive, do not go far enough, argues Amitav Acharya, professor of global governance. Such steps alone would fail to achieve the fundamental goal of fostering political openness, beginning with the freeing of all political prisoners. He suggests new institutions that could reduce violence as well as overcome the reluctance of Burma's neighbors to pressure the junta: First, a contact group of pertinent and prominent countries should engage in continuous dialogue with the regime, pushing greater freedom for the Burmese people. Second, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be organized, offering incentives for military officers in Myanmar to break with the junta and refrain from attacking their own people. The international community holds mechanisms for moving beyond the rhetoric to create a more peaceful and democratic Burma....
Read more at: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=9882
Asia needs better ways to protect its people
SINGAPORE: The international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami has been prompt and generous, and some Asian countries - Japan, China, Singapore and India - made special contributions. But in general Asian countries have a long way to go in becoming significant providers of humanitarian assistance in the region, not to mention in the international community at large....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/15/opinion/edacharya.php
China's charm offensive in Southeast Asia
It's a time of hype in China-Southeast Asian relations. During the past year, the prime ministers of Malaysia and Thailand have vigorously denied that a rising China was or would be a threat to Asian stability and prosperity. David Kang argues in the journal International Security that Southeast Asian states may even be "bandwagoning" with China....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/11/08/edacharya_ed3_.php
Clash of Civilizations?No, of National Interests and Principles
"The swift collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan under the weight of American military power marks the defeat of one of the more prominent ideas to emerge from the ashes of the Cold War: Samuel Huntington's thesis about a "clash of civilizations."....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/01/10/edach_ed3_.php
ASEAN at 40 (Foreign Affairs.org)
The current state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) evokes both pessimism and hope. Skeptics see the organization -- founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore -- as increasingly irrelevant in the post-Cold War milieu and unable to confront the new enemies of a globalized world: currency speculators, pandemic viruses, and shadowy terrorist groups. To its harshest critics, ASEAN is little more than a quarrelsome bunch of peripheral nations too beholden to a nineteenth century view of national sovereignty to effectively cooperate and build a regional identity.....
Read more at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070815faupdate86481/amitav-acharya/asean-at-40-mid-life-rejuvenation.html
The Next Steps for Burma (Yaleglobal)
Western nations have tightened economic sanctions and ASEAN has expressed "revulsion" at Myanmar's repression of non-violent protests. Concrete actions must now follow the outrage. UN efforts to encourage talks on the country's constitution and renew humanitarian poverty relief, while positive, do not go far enough, argues Amitav Acharya, professor of global governance. Such steps alone would fail to achieve the fundamental goal of fostering political openness, beginning with the freeing of all political prisoners. He suggests new institutions that could reduce violence as well as overcome the reluctance of Burma's neighbors to pressure the junta: First, a contact group of pertinent and prominent countries should engage in continuous dialogue with the regime, pushing greater freedom for the Burmese people. Second, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be organized, offering incentives for military officers in Myanmar to break with the junta and refrain from attacking their own people. The international community holds mechanisms for moving beyond the rhetoric to create a more peaceful and democratic Burma....
Read more at: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=9882
Asia needs better ways to protect its people
SINGAPORE: The international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami has been prompt and generous, and some Asian countries - Japan, China, Singapore and India - made special contributions. But in general Asian countries have a long way to go in becoming significant providers of humanitarian assistance in the region, not to mention in the international community at large....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/15/opinion/edacharya.php
China's charm offensive in Southeast Asia
It's a time of hype in China-Southeast Asian relations. During the past year, the prime ministers of Malaysia and Thailand have vigorously denied that a rising China was or would be a threat to Asian stability and prosperity. David Kang argues in the journal International Security that Southeast Asian states may even be "bandwagoning" with China....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/11/08/edacharya_ed3_.php
Clash of Civilizations?No, of National Interests and Principles
"The swift collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan under the weight of American military power marks the defeat of one of the more prominent ideas to emerge from the ashes of the Cold War: Samuel Huntington's thesis about a "clash of civilizations."....
Read more at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/01/10/edach_ed3_.php
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Table of Contents (407k) Preface (410k) Introduction: Rethinking Singapore's ForeignPolicy (435k) Chapter 1: The Evolution of Singapore's Foreign Policy: Challenges of Change (468k)
The conventional understanding of Singapore's foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by the imperatives of being a small state; second, its primary purpose is to ensure Singapore's survival, given its small size; and third, this logic of survival dictates a realpolitik approach to foreign policy and national security.
This book argues that an exclusively realist view of Singapore's foreign policy is inadequate. Singapore's foreign policy is also shaped by the positive effects of economic interdependence and regional institution-building ?instruments that realists tend to dismiss, but which Singapore has self-consciously tried to promote as instruments of regional order. The book first looks at the evolution of Singapore's foreign policy, before analyzing Singapore's international relations and national security in the context of economic growth and terrorism. It concludes with an interesting chapter on the impact of the rise of China and India on the regional landscape.
Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking Singapore's Foreign Policy
Part I: Foundations:
The Evolution of Singapore's Foreign Policy: Challenges of Change
The Economic Foundations of Singapore's Security: From Globalism to Regionalism?
Part II: Adaptations:
Diplomacy in Hard Times: Singapore Confronts Global Terrorism and Regional Regression
Waging the War on Terror: Singapore's Responses and Dilemmas
Singapore and Southeast Asia in a Fast-changing Landscape: Coping with the Rise of China and India
Introduction: Rethinking Singapore's Foreign Policy
Part I: Foundations:
The Evolution of Singapore's Foreign Policy: Challenges of Change
The Economic Foundations of Singapore's Security: From Globalism to Regionalism?
Part II: Adaptations:
Diplomacy in Hard Times: Singapore Confronts Global Terrorism and Regional Regression
Waging the War on Terror: Singapore's Responses and Dilemmas
Singapore and Southeast Asia in a Fast-changing Landscape: Coping with the Rise of China and India
Readership: Undergraduates, graduates and academics in foreign policy and international relations; government ministries; general readers interested in Singapore issues.
Challenges the conventional realist understanding of Singapore's foreignpolicy in favor of a liberal institutionalist and social constructivistapproach?Contains a collection of essays written between 1992 and 2005, thusproviding a picture of the evolution of Singapore's foreign policy?Covers topics such as the linkage between economics and nationalsecurity; globalization versus regionalization; terrorism; regional,inter-regional and bilateral cooperation; and the impact of the rise of Chinaand India?Includes past speeches by Lee Kuan Yew, S Rajaratnam, S Dhanabalan andTommy Koh on foreign policy
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"This is an insightful book. By highlighting Singapore's emphasis on ideas and cooperation rather than confrontation and conflict, Acharya sheds new light on the city-state's emerging key role in the region and its leaders' continuing influence in world affairs. Singapore's Foreign Policy: The Search for Regional Order reaffirms that Acharya is always worth reading."
Richard Stubbs McMaster University, Canada
"This book of original essays challenges dominant explanations of Singapore's foreign policy, offering a nuanced portrait of the core ideas underpinning its policy strategies. I recommend it as required reading for all those interested in both Singapore as well as the wider Southeast Asian region."
Rosemary Foot University of Oxford, UK
"Acharya systematically exposes the limitations of the dominant realist approach for understanding Singapore's foreign policy, challenging some influential foundational myths in the process. In rendering historical conjuncture, international structures and regional institutions integral to the analysis, Acharya sheds new light on the forces and dynamics behind Singapore's foreign policy."
Garry Rodan Murdoch University, Australia
216pp
Pub. date: Dec 2007
ISBN 978-981-270-859-5981-270-859-6
US$45 / £24
"This is an insightful book. By highlighting Singapore's emphasis on ideas and cooperation rather than confrontation and conflict, Acharya sheds new light on the city-state's emerging key role in the region and its leaders' continuing influence in world affairs. Singapore's Foreign Policy: The Search for Regional Order reaffirms that Acharya is always worth reading."
Richard Stubbs McMaster University, Canada
"This book of original essays challenges dominant explanations of Singapore's foreign policy, offering a nuanced portrait of the core ideas underpinning its policy strategies. I recommend it as required reading for all those interested in both Singapore as well as the wider Southeast Asian region."
Rosemary Foot University of Oxford, UK
"Acharya systematically exposes the limitations of the dominant realist approach for understanding Singapore's foreign policy, challenging some influential foundational myths in the process. In rendering historical conjuncture, international structures and regional institutions integral to the analysis, Acharya sheds new light on the forces and dynamics behind Singapore's foreign policy."
Garry Rodan Murdoch University, Australia
216pp
Pub. date: Dec 2007
ISBN 978-981-270-859-5981-270-859-6
US$45 / £24
Table of Contents (407k) Preface (410k) Introduction: Rethinking Singapore's ForeignPolicy (435k) Chapter 1: The Evolution of Singapore's Foreign Policy: Challenges of Change (468k)
The conventional understanding of Singapore's foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by the imperatives of being a small state; second, its primary purpose is to ensure Singapore's survival, given its small size; and third, this logic of survival dictates a realpolitik approach to foreign policy and national security.
This book argues that an exclusively realist view of Singapore's foreign policy is inadequate. Singapore's foreign policy is also shaped by the positive effects of economic interdependence and regional institution-building ?instruments that realists tend to dismiss, but which Singapore has self-consciously tried to promote as instruments of regional order. The book first looks at the evolution of Singapore's foreign policy, before analyzing Singapore's international relations and national security in the context of economic growth and terrorism. It concludes with an interesting chapter on the impact of the rise of China and India on the regional landscape.
Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking Singapore's Foreign Policy
Part I: Foundations:
The Evolution of Singapore's Foreign Policy: Challenges of Change
The Economic Foundations of Singapore's Security: From Globalism to Regionalism?
Part II: Adaptations:
Diplomacy in Hard Times: Singapore Confronts Global Terrorism and Regional Regression
Waging the War on Terror: Singapore's Responses and Dilemmas
Singapore and Southeast Asia in a Fast-changing Landscape: Coping with the Rise of China and India
Introduction: Rethinking Singapore's Foreign Policy
Part I: Foundations:
The Evolution of Singapore's Foreign Policy: Challenges of Change
The Economic Foundations of Singapore's Security: From Globalism to Regionalism?
Part II: Adaptations:
Diplomacy in Hard Times: Singapore Confronts Global Terrorism and Regional Regression
Waging the War on Terror: Singapore's Responses and Dilemmas
Singapore and Southeast Asia in a Fast-changing Landscape: Coping with the Rise of China and India
Readership: Undergraduates, graduates and academics in foreign policy and international relations; government ministries; general readers interested in Singapore issues.
Challenges the conventional realist understanding of Singapore's foreignpolicy in favor of a liberal institutionalist and social constructivistapproach?Contains a collection of essays written between 1992 and 2005, thusproviding a picture of the evolution of Singapore's foreign policy?Covers topics such as the linkage between economics and nationalsecurity; globalization versus regionalization; terrorism; regional,inter-regional and bilateral cooperation; and the impact of the rise of Chinaand India?Includes past speeches by Lee Kuan Yew, S Rajaratnam, S Dhanabalan andTommy Koh on foreign policy
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"This is an insightful book. By highlighting Singapore's emphasis on ideas and cooperation rather than confrontation and conflict, Acharya sheds new light on the city-state's emerging key role in the region and its leaders' continuing influence in world affairs. Singapore's Foreign Policy: The Search for Regional Order reaffirms that Acharya is always worth reading."
Richard Stubbs McMaster University, Canada
"This book of original essays challenges dominant explanations of Singapore's foreign policy, offering a nuanced portrait of the core ideas underpinning its policy strategies. I recommend it as required reading for all those interested in both Singapore as well as the wider Southeast Asian region."
Rosemary Foot University of Oxford, UK
"Acharya systematically exposes the limitations of the dominant realist approach for understanding Singapore's foreign policy, challenging some influential foundational myths in the process. In rendering historical conjuncture, international structures and regional institutions integral to the analysis, Acharya sheds new light on the forces and dynamics behind Singapore's foreign policy."
Garry Rodan Murdoch University, Australia
216pp
Pub. date: Dec 2007
ISBN 978-981-270-859-5981-270-859-6
US$45 / £24
"This is an insightful book. By highlighting Singapore's emphasis on ideas and cooperation rather than confrontation and conflict, Acharya sheds new light on the city-state's emerging key role in the region and its leaders' continuing influence in world affairs. Singapore's Foreign Policy: The Search for Regional Order reaffirms that Acharya is always worth reading."
Richard Stubbs McMaster University, Canada
"This book of original essays challenges dominant explanations of Singapore's foreign policy, offering a nuanced portrait of the core ideas underpinning its policy strategies. I recommend it as required reading for all those interested in both Singapore as well as the wider Southeast Asian region."
Rosemary Foot University of Oxford, UK
"Acharya systematically exposes the limitations of the dominant realist approach for understanding Singapore's foreign policy, challenging some influential foundational myths in the process. In rendering historical conjuncture, international structures and regional institutions integral to the analysis, Acharya sheds new light on the forces and dynamics behind Singapore's foreign policy."
Garry Rodan Murdoch University, Australia
216pp
Pub. date: Dec 2007
ISBN 978-981-270-859-5981-270-859-6
US$45 / £24
ASIA RISING: WHO IS LEADING?
Published by World Scientific http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/6594.html
by Amitav Acharya (University of Bristol, UK)
China, India and Japan are among the biggest players in the global economy today. However, Asia's future depends not just on its impressive growth rates or its immense natural resources and human talent; rather, it also hinges on the quality of leadership provided by the major nations and associations of Asia, and their ability to overcome persisting rivalries and respond to new transnational challenges.
Conflict and cooperation are the two central themes of this book ?a collection of commentaries and opinion pieces by Professor Amitav Acharya from various newspapers and publications from 2002 to 2006. It covers a wide range of issues such as the rise of China, Asia's leadership legacy and the role of ASEAN. Also discussed are the fate of democracy in Asia, and the implications of transnational dangers and the changing world order for Asia.
Contents:
China's Rise and the East Asian Community
A Historical Legacy
Transnational Dangers
ASEAN: Regressing or Reinventing?
Democracy and Regional Order
The Changing World Order: Implications for Asia
Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, academics in Asian studies and political science. Government ministries and diplomats. General readers interested in current affairs and the Asian region.
Analyzes Asia's rise and the relations among its leading economies,China, India and Japan
Examines Asia's leadership abilities by looking at the 1955 BandungConference?
Discusses the role of ASEAN in the new world order?Highlights the challenges and dangers facing Asia as it looks toestablish itself as the world leader in the 21st century
Analyzes Asia's rise and the relations among its leading economies,China, India and Japan?Examines Asia's leadership abilities by looking at the 1955 BandungConference?Discusses the role of ASEAN in the new world order?
Highlights the challenges and dangers facing Asia as it looks toestablish itself as the world leader in the 21st century
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216pp
Pub. date: Jan 2008
ISBN 978-981-277-133-9(pbk)981-277-133-6(pbk)
US$25 / £14
ASIA RISING: WHO IS LEADING?
Published by World Scientific http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/6594.html
by Amitav Acharya (University of Bristol, UK)
China, India and Japan are among the biggest players in the global economy today. However, Asia's future depends not just on its impressive growth rates or its immense natural resources and human talent; rather, it also hinges on the quality of leadership provided by the major nations and associations of Asia, and their ability to overcome persisting rivalries and respond to new transnational challenges.
Conflict and cooperation are the two central themes of this book ?a collection of commentaries and opinion pieces by Professor Amitav Acharya from various newspapers and publications from 2002 to 2006. It covers a wide range of issues such as the rise of China, Asia's leadership legacy and the role of ASEAN. Also discussed are the fate of democracy in Asia, and the implications of transnational dangers and the changing world order for Asia.
Contents:
China's Rise and the East Asian Community
A Historical Legacy
Transnational Dangers
ASEAN: Regressing or Reinventing?
Democracy and Regional Order
The Changing World Order: Implications for Asia
Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, academics in Asian studies and political science. Government ministries and diplomats. General readers interested in current affairs and the Asian region.
Analyzes Asia's rise and the relations among its leading economies,China, India and Japan
Examines Asia's leadership abilities by looking at the 1955 BandungConference?
Discusses the role of ASEAN in the new world order?Highlights the challenges and dangers facing Asia as it looks toestablish itself as the world leader in the 21st century
Analyzes Asia's rise and the relations among its leading economies,China, India and Japan?Examines Asia's leadership abilities by looking at the 1955 BandungConference?Discusses the role of ASEAN in the new world order?
Highlights the challenges and dangers facing Asia as it looks toestablish itself as the world leader in the 21st century
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216pp
Pub. date: Jan 2008
ISBN 978-981-277-133-9(pbk)981-277-133-6(pbk)
US$25 / £14
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