Conflict management and constructive engagement in ASEAN's expansion

Amer, Ramses

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“…A continuum of possibilities might existence between the role of conflict and regional institutional formations. 135 Conflict management needs subtle analysis as some of these forums work on the basis of 'quiet' diplomacy, where issues are addressed behind closed doors, so that the public may not know of the successes. Yuen Foong Khong and Helen E. S. Nesadurai write that it was 'remarkable' that ASEAN 'could be established at all'.…”

Section: Conflict Prevention Resolution and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Regions’ and their study: wherefrom, what for and whereto?

Fawn¹

2009

Rev. Int. Stud.

105

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Long a focal point in the study of Geography, regions have become a major concern of International Relations, and for some even its essence. Principle definitions and approaches, however, remain contested, as do the contexts in which and how they matter, from economic to security. This article examines contested views on what constitutes a region and on the nature and functioning of regional architecture, drawing from thematic and case-specific literature to indicate the expanse of analytical enquiry. These include the roles and interpretations of geography, identity, culture, institutionalisation, and the role of actors, including a hegemon, major regional powers and others actors from within a region, both state and societal. A final section indicates additional areas for future research.

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Section: Conflict Prevention Resolution and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Regions’ and their study: wherefrom, what for and whereto?

Fawn¹

2009

Rev. Int. Stud.

105

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“…Against this backdrop, it is essential to address Pakistan-India conflict simultaneously as well as moving towards fostering of regional economic cooperation in South Asia as ASEAN members have adopted the path to managing their bilateral conflicts and settled some of the border disputes amongst them while not permitting regional economic cooperation to become hostage by bilateral conflicts. 1 The ASEAN member states have managed to build confidence and develop an understanding to a variety of issues between them through formal and non-formal discussions between the leaders, ministers and senior officials of the member states (Amer, 1999). In this regard, the central element of ASEAN's approach to avoiding conflict and restrain the existing conflict has been 'consultation processes termed as musyawrah.…”

Section: Reflectionsmentioning

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Saarc as a Tool of Regionalism in South Asia: Lessons From Asean

Ashraf¹,

Akhir²

2016

JATI

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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) as a regional economic grouping in South Asia has not emerged as a viable and an efficient regional block such as the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Despite taking several initiatives in this regard, it has not achieved the desired objectives set forth at the time of its establishment. Over thirty years, it has become hostage to the Pakistan-India adversarial relationship. Through interviews with key informants (KIs), this article investigates the causes for the lack of momentum of SAARC and explores how ASEAN's path might offer lessons for SAARC. Adopting qualitative methods and content analysis this research finds the dominance of the Pakistan-India conflictual relationship as the key reason for the relative weakness of the SAARC. Moreover, the lack of implementation of SAARC declarations, conflicting issues between India and other neighbouring countries and the strict SAARC visa regime are important barriers to the enhancement of regional co-operation in South Asia. The article recommends that SAARC countries follow the ASEAN model and focus on the augmentation of regional cooperation while managing bilateral conflicts between them. In this regard, Pakistan and India, being the largest economies in South Asia, should also perform a role in enhancing bilateral economic cooperation to avoid the potential for bilateral conflict. The article also finds that bilateral economic co-operation between Pakistan and India has a spillover effect on the enhancement of regional economic cooperation in South Asia.

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“…The end of the Cold War brought about a rapprochement between Vietnam and ASEAN and put an end to Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia, where general elections led to the formation of a coalition government in 1993 (Amer 1999(Amer , 1037Chin 1997, 7-8). These changes in the regional order sparked a debate about ASEAN's boundaries.…”

Section: Myanmar Cambodia and Asean's Anti-coup Normmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The notion that Bnational resilience^in the sense of domestic political stability and Bregional resilience^were intertwined had a long tradition among ASEAN countries (Amer 1999(Amer , 1033. It had first been officially acknowledged in the Declaration of ASEAN Concord:…”

Section: Myanmar Cambodia and Asean's Anti-coup Normmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, it has been argued that admitting new members and creating institutional frameworks such as the ASEAN Regional Forum was a way for the original ASEAN member states to socialize their neighbors into the norms of the BASEAN Way^of regional cooperation, i.e., essentially an exercise in security-community building (Acharya 2001;Amer 1999;Anwar 2001, 30-33). In the European case, this line of argument is represented in the BEuropeanization^literature (O'Brennan 2016; Sedelmeier 2011), which sees the use of conditionality in the EU's enlargement and association processes as a strategic instrument to export its institutional order into its periphery.…”

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Regional standards of membership and enlargement in the EU and ASEAN

Spandler

2018

Asia Eur J

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For regional organizations (ROs) as geographically defined entities, questions of membership often raise moral questions about the very foundations of regional identity. To date, comparative approaches to the role of norms in the politics of RO enlargement are a missing piece in the regionalism literature. This paper assumes that enlargement practices are shaped by discourses about legitimate actorness. Drawing on the concept of Bstandards of civilization,^I argue that prospective RO members are judged against a set of norms-the standard of membership-which constitute basic ideas about the identity of the regional international society. As evidence from the Spanish and Greek accession to the European Community and the accession of Myanmar and Cambodia to ASEAN shows, this standard is not a static catalogue of cultural values, as existing accounts suggest, but develops in response to accession requests which trigger normative crises among the existing member states. In such situations, RO actors may argue for the inclusion of new norms in the standard of membership by drawing on Bcognitive priors^. Enlargement processes thus reveal a dialectical relation between regional norms and boundary-drawing; while a regional standard of membership informs the redefinition of an RO's boundaries, the accession of new candidates also transforms that very standard.

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Conflict management and constructive engagement in ASEAN's expansion

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

‘Regions’ and their study: wherefrom, what for and whereto?

‘Regions’ and their study: wherefrom, what for and whereto?

Saarc as a Tool of Regionalism in South Asia: Lessons From Asean

Regional standards of membership and enlargement in the EU and ASEAN

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