ASEAN, Institutional Change, and Historical Institutionalism
Understanding the processes of institutional change is important to grasp the possibility and limitation of ASEAN’s institutional change, and its reaction to an event.
ASEAN Regional Institutions: Remaining Relevant amidst External Power Rivalries
Maintaining ASEAN’s relevance amidst external power rivalries is premised upon ASEAN’s regional institutions remaining resilient to influences by external factors.
RtoP and Women, Peace and Security: A Shared Agenda for the Asia-Pacific?
Shared advocacy between the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agendas is vital to help realise their stated objectives.
ASEAN: Going It Alone? Not Quite
Despite decades of confidence-building, distrust among ASEAN member states has remained high, limiting the extent of intraregional cooperation.
Diffusing the EU Model of Regional Integration in Asia: Integration ‘à la carte’?
ASEAN has demonstrated that it remains true to itself, seeking methods for making its own integration efforts more efficient without departing from its long established principles of cooperation.
An EU Model for ASEAN?
The EU is not a model power for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. At this point, it is simply another regional organization that can serve as a reference point for ASEAN’s past and future institutionalization.
ASEAN and the European Union: Lessons in Integration
The experiences of ASEAN-EU integration have clarified some hard truths. Both organisations should take each other more seriously and recognise the differences and similarities between their respective regions and organisational structures.
Pnom Penh: Strategic Implications
The strategic landscape in South East Asia is reordering. Southeast Asians and Americans must convince China that the “nine-dotted line” South China Sea is a bridge too far.
The Shangri-La Dialogue 2012
The Shangri-La Dialogue provides an unofficial setting where ministers and other senior officials are given the opportunity to address major security issues and interact with a large audience of security specialists. Additionally, many officials use the summit to arrange private meetings with their counterparts on the sidelines.
The China-Philippines Face Off at Scarborough Shoal: Back to Square One?
The current standoff in the South China Sea between the Philippines and China threatens to raise tensions to new heights.
