Examines Indonesia’s growing role as an influential democratic power in Asia and the world. It analyzes post-1998 political developments, democratic transformation, and the country’s contributions to international relations, particularly in Southeast Asia. The author discusses how national identity, foreign policy, and domestic dynamics shape Indonesia’s strategic position as the world’…
The book provides a wide-ranging discussion of the key themes in the international relations of Southeast Asia. These themes include the impact of super-power rivalry on the region; the relationship between insurgency, separatism and regional stability; the strengths and limitations of ASEAN's approach to regional order; conflict and conflict-management in Cambodia; the emergence and evolution …
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 evolu…
"This book contains the most comprehensive and critical account available of the evolution of ASEAN's norms and the viability of the ASEAN Way of conflict management. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics."
This text seeks to provide an understanding of Southeast Asia as a region, the problems of statehood faced by the individual countries, and the search for regional order, peace and stability.
Acharya (Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore) presents nine previously published essays, penned during the past decade, in which he examines a range of issues related to the rise of multilateral regional institutions in Asia. Topics include the impact of internal security arrangements on regional cooperation, the relevance of the growth of the Associa…
In the prevailing climate of uncertainty and apprehension about Southeast Asia's security outlook in the post-Cold War era, this study looks at the question of whether there is an impending arms race in the region. It examines the factors behind the recent trends towards increased defence spending and force modernisation in countries in the region and what efforts should and can be undertaken t…