The first half to this book talks about the development of the sea convention from 1976 to 1995. Djalal firstly discuss about customary international law
International economic law on the one hand and national economic laws and policies on the other, form the borderlines of the "playing ground" within which the design for closer economic cooperation can be drawn. Before anything can be done, it is of utmost importance to know and study these "borderlines". This book is an attempt to set out the "borderlines" not only for intra-ASEAN economic co-…
The volume is essentially economic in its orientation: it contains both empirical findings and policy analyses dealing with trade among the United States and key ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Thailand. However, the authors do extend their primary focus to include the contention that there exists a strong connection between external openness,…
This report summarizes the views of participants on these broad conceptual issues, as well as their animated debate on more immediate matters like the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC), and the East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC).
This monograph seeks to assess the role that Indonesia has played in ASEAN following the serious economic and political crisis that engulfed the state from late 1997. The paper gives an overview of Indonesian foreign policy since independence, and its subsequent relation to ASEAN.
Assesses the importance of enhanced ASEAN-Japan cooperation as a step toward a greater East Asian regional community. Fifteen international relations experts review the history and current status of this bilateral relationship and propose how it can be strengthened.
This book is an edited volume about China-ASEAN relations with contributions from experts based in China and Singapore. The book includes a few excellent papers that were presented at a conference the editor organized in October 2009 and also two other research papers. They examine China-ASEAN relations from a sub-regional cooperation perspective. The book discusses and analyzes China-ASEAN coo…
Presents selected works of Michael Leifer, the doyen of Southeast Asia Studies, who died in 2001. This book includes works on the Southeast Asia region - ASEAN, regional order and conflict, great power policies towards the region, maritime security in Southeast Asia, and studies of the domestic policies of individual Southeast Asia countries.
This book, The Philippines in ASEAN: Reflections from the Listening Room, is essentially about the Philippine role in ASEAN, particularly in terms of human rights, regional security, and economic integration. However, it is also a veritable mini-history of ASEAN-from the Philippine point of view, but also from the standpoint of a fifteen-year veteran of the ASEAN Secretariat. It is thus a valua…
The hardline view of Sino-Indian relations found in the published reports of Indian and Chinese security analysts is often at considerable odds with the more tempered opinions those same analysts express in private interviews and conversations. What is the reality of the increasingly important security relationship between the two countries? The authors of this new study address that question i…