Pacific Asia faces environmental challenges ranging from pollution and rapid population growth to increasing water, energy and food scarcity. To what extent will these issues shape the regional security agenda? This paper argues that, in themselves, environmental difficulties are unlikely to be the primary cause of major conflict between the states. Nonetheless, Pacific Asia suffers from many t…
With Cambodia's admission on 30 April 1999, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) finally incorporated all ten South-East Asian states. But ASEAN in 1999 is a pale imitation of the organisation which emerged from the Cold War as a model regional institution. Since July 1997, the enlarged Association has faced unprecedented challenges. Its members are beset with economic difficulti…
This book is an attempt to answer this question, one may find that ASEAN-not just the ASEAN members that have claims to little pieces of land and vast waters of the South China Sea, not just individual ASEAN members, but ASEAN as a whole - has an abiding interest in peace and stability in this region and in freedom of navigation in and overflight above the South China Sea. Much of ASEAN's comme…
After a bloody revolution of more than four years (1945- 1949), Indonesia won her freedom from Holland with the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in December 1949. Holland had colonized Indonesia for more than three hundred years. What is now called Indonesia was formerly "The Netherlands East Indies" and consisted, according to the Dutch Constitution, of the whole of the Netherlands East In…
This book is the outcome of some of those discussions that took place at last year's meeting, the lasting energy and unresolved debates that emanated from it, and ISIS Malaysia's continued commitment to raise the bar of the conversations surrounding ASEAN.
"Handbook on ASEAN Protocol and Practices" merupakan sebuah panduan yang berfokus pada protokol dan praktik-praktik dalam kerangka ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). Panduan ini dirancang untuk memberikan pemahaman mendalam tentang norma-norma dan tata cara yang mengatur hubungan diplomatik, pertemuan resmi, serta interaksi antara negara-negara anggota ASEAN. Panduan ini membahas b…
Indonesia, as a vital member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), holds immense potential in driving regional economic growth and cooperation. This abstract examines the significance of integrating Indonesian economic corridors into the ASEAN market to enhance trade, investment, and connectivity within the region. By capitalizing on its strategic geographic location and abunda…
The papers in this book focus on women in Southeast Asia, and demonstrate that Boserup's formulation is equally applicable in this region. The important feature of capitalism in developing countries seems to be its ability to undermine women's traditional spheres of power and influence while simultaneously creating new conditions for further dependence on men. Thus, as a result of inappropriate…
On 12 November 1995 CSIS in conjunction with Australian Defence Studies Centre (ADSC), Canberra organised a workshop on "Potential Linkages between Economic and Regional Security Fora". The papers presented at the workshop have been edited and compiled in this volume entitled The Role of Security and Economic Cooperation Structures in the Asia Pacific Region Indonesian and Australian Views This…
This series is dedicated to the proposition that it is no longer valid or profitable to study comparative politics within an essentially North American and European-centered frame of reference. Although admittedly more familiar, more comprehensible, and in the past, at least-closer and more important to us, the political histories, ideologies, and institutions of these areas constitute only a s…