ASEAN and Non‑interference: A Principle Maintained

Ramcharan, Robin

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“…On one hand, persisting vulnerability of governments to internal and external threats, coupled with outstanding regional rivalries, mandated an emphasis on national sovereignty, as a guarantee against unwanted interference from both regional institutions as well as fellow members (Narine, 1997;Severino, 2006;Ravenhill, 2008;Acharya, 2009;Cockerham, 2010). On the other hand, leaders had a strong common interest in consolidating regional cooperation and keeping interstate tensions under control, as they regarded intra-regional tensions as likely to lead to much feared great power intervention within the region (Shee, 1977;Ramcharan, 2000).…”

Section: Asean's Purpose: Guard Regional Governments Against Unwantedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The regional developments the Charter fails to endorse are telling as they reflect continued resistance to delegating powers to regional bodies and commitment to the long-standing ASEAN diplomatic protocol. In particular, the Charter does not mention the ASEAN Troika in relation to intra-mural dispute settlement, nor does it include any reference to the now regular ASEAN foreign ministers" retreats (Funston, 2000;Ramcharan, 2000;Haacke, 2003). There are also no provisions on transparency of regional institutions.…”

Section: Decision-makers Before and After The Asean Chartermentioning

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ASEAN Decision-Making Process: Before and after the ASEAN Charter

Feraru

2016

Asian Development Policy Review

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has long presented IR theorists with a paradox. This is due to the fact that it survived decades of intra-mural conflicts without having provided member states with any of the benefits that justify regional institutional arrangements in Europe. Current debate over the association's effectiveness centers on ASEAN's informal, strictly intergovernmental decision-making process, generally referred to as the 'ASEAN Way'. Supporters credit it with having prevented intra-regional conflicts from escalating into open war by building confidence among member states; while critics regard endurance of this sovereignty-centered decision-making process as a fundamental obstacle to regional integration and emphasize the significant costs it entails. Notwithstanding widespread recognition of the essential role the ASEAN decision-making process plays in explaining regional cooperation, scholars seldom went beyond presenting the various formal and informal procedures, examining their consequences in relation to specific aspects of cooperation, or acknowledging their role in serving the interests of governments. The aim of this article is to provide an in-depth assessment of the evolution of regional decision-making actors and practices and examine the extent of the changes provided for by the ASEAN Charter. It looks at the role these practices play in achieving the objectives member governments set for the association, and finds that the basic policy-making cycle negotiated in late 1960searly 1970s has been reinforced by subsequent institutional changes. The conclusion discusses implications of the continued relevance of this process to fulfilling ASEAN objectives.

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Section: Asean's Purpose: Guard Regional Governments Against Unwantedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Decision-makers Before and After The Asean Chartermentioning

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ASEAN Decision-Making Process: Before and after the ASEAN Charter

Feraru

2016

Asian Development Policy Review

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“…A community may imply common rights and duties. 33 Its focus is not necessarily geographic; for example, some leaders talk about "the community of democracies. "…”

Section: Regionalization Regionalism Integration and Community Bmentioning

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Asia’s New Regionalism

Frost¹

2009

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Part 3 Sizing Up the Asian Integration Movement 10 Assessing the Promise of Integration 11 Current Obstacles and Potential Threats 12 Looking to the Future List of Acronyms and Regional Definitions Bibliography Index About the Book v Contents Something significant is pulsing through Asia. Not for centuries has that region been so fluid, so open, so cosmopolitan. Never has communication been so inexpensive and widely available, nor transport so rapid and efficient. Cross-border business-old and new, legal and illegal-flourishes. Newly laid roads connect megacities with spanking new suburbs and chockablock shanties. Integrated production networks span far-flung manufacturing hubs. Sleepy ports lined with tumbledown warehouses are waking up, and airlines offer a starburst of new routes. City and local governments are setting up new offices to handle record numbers of tourists and entrepreneurs. Environmental, health, and human rights groups are forming information networks and patchy cross-border coalitions. Sensing new prey, transnational criminal gangs have stepped up their activity. Nowhere is this regional pulse more palpable than in what I call Maritime Asia, the vast sweep of coastline and water connecting central and southern India, Southeast Asia, China, the Korean peninsula, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In maritime communities, integration is spontaneous and tangible. A visitor to Asia's major ports and coastal communities is likely to jostle against people from all over the region: a Malaysian official, an Indian engineer, a Chinese tourist, a Japanese banker, a Filipino bar hostess, a Korean professor, and an Indonesian businessman, perhaps. Most of them carry cellular telephones equipped with the latest devices and talk on them frequently-often in English, the region's lingua franca. The visitor's day might include a dim sum lunch, a stroll along a waterfront packed with cargo ships, a shopping trip to a mall packed with Asian products, a sushi dinner, and a Bollywood film. Westerners, no longer stared at, are lost in the crowd. This quickening to life is highly uneven. In Asia's remote rice paddies and dry plains, in the highlands and hill country, in the more distant islands of the archipelagos, in countless villages and small towns, lies a slow-moving, more 1 1 Asia's New Momentum isolated, less cosmopolitan Asia. Foreign visitors are rare. Nevertheless, in local markets one might find "Hello Kitty" dolls, American T-shirts made in China, and pirated CDs featuring a Korean pop singer. 1 The sons of the wealthiest families in Cambodia ride Honda motorcycles imported from Vietnam and wear trendy clothes copied from Japanese fashions. A customer in Sri Lanka was amused to spot a can labeled "Mongolian Seafood," because Mongolia is landlocked; the contents were processed in Malaysia. 2 Meanwhile, Asian government officials are promoting a different version of integration. Motivated primarily by reasons of state, members of the tennation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN 10) are the drive...

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“…For a view that the principle will survive political practice, see, for example,Ramcharan (2000). For view that it is about to, and should, change, seeHourn (2000).…”

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East Asian relative peace and the ASEAN Way

Kivimäki

2010

Int Relat Asia Pac

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East Asia has experienced a drastic decline in incidences of warfare and has had exceptionally low levels of battle deaths after 1979. However, East Asian peace had already begun in 1967 inside ASEAN. Is it possible that East Asian peace began in ASEAN and spread to the rest of East Asia? This is the question that this article aims to tackle by showing the association between a reasonable and plausible explanation, the ASEAN Way, and East Asian peace after 1979. The argument about the role of the ASEAN approach in the pacification of East Asia is based on an examination of the patterns of frequency of conflicts, numbers of battle deaths and conflict termination. In this kind of examination, it seems that the recipes for peace in East Asia after 1979 are similar to those of ASEAN after 1967, and that their relationship to conflicts was also very similar.

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ASEAN and Non‑interference: A Principle Maintained

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ASEAN Decision-Making Process: Before and after the ASEAN Charter

ASEAN Decision-Making Process: Before and after the ASEAN Charter

Asia’s New Regionalism

East Asian relative peace and the ASEAN Way

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