36. ASEAN Governing Mechanisms

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE xii
4. Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader
5. ASEAN: Conception and Evolution xiii
6. ASEAN: The Way Ahead xix
7. New Challenges for ASEAN xxiv
8. SECTION I: ASEAN: THE LONG VIEW
9. INTRODUCTION 3
10. 1. Southeast Asia and Foreign Empires 5
11. 2. Southeast Asia and the Great Powers 9
12. 3. The Evolving Nature of ASEAN’s Economic Cooperation: Original Vision and Current Practice 14
13. 4. From Political/Security Concerns to Regional Economic Integration 17
14. SECTION II: COUNTRY ANALYSES
15. INTRODUCTION 25
16. 5. Political Figures and Political Parties: Indonesia after Soeharto 27
17. 6. Malaysia: Close to a Tipping Point 31
18. 7. Thailand: The Military’s Power Persists 36
19. 8. Vietnam: Reforms Show Mixed Results 41
20. 9. The Philippines: Challenging Conventional Wisdom 45
21. 10. Myanmar: Late Embrace of ASEAN 49
22. 11. Timor-Leste and ASEAN 54
23. SECTION III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF THE REGION
24. INTRODUCTION 61
25. Southeast Asian Societies
26. 12. Civil Society in Southeast Asia 65
27. 13. Multicultural Realities and Membership: States, Migrations and Citizenship in Asia 69
28. 14. Education in Southeast Asia: Investments, Achievements, and Returns 75
29. 15. Asian Pentecostalism: Renewals, Megachurches, and Social Engagement 79
30. 16. The Rise of Middle Classes in Southeast Asia 84
31. The Southeast Asian Economy
32. 17. URBANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA 91
33. 18. UNDERSTANDING THE ASEAN DEVELOPMENT GAP 95
34. 19. Tourism Policy-Making in Southeast Asia: A Twenty-First Century Perspective 99
35. Southeast Asian Politics
36. 20. Low-Quality Democracy and Varied Authoritarianism: Elites and Regimes in Southeast Asia Today 107
37. 21. Social Foundations of Governance in Contemporary Southeast Asia 112
38. 22. Decentralization and Democratic Governance in Southeast Asia: Theoretical Views, Conceptual Pitfalls and Empirical Ambiguities 117
39. 23. Authority and Democracy in Malaysian and Indonesian Islamic Movements 122
40. 24. Southeast Asia in the US Rebalance: Perceptions from a Divided Region 126
41. SECTION IV: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
42. INTRODUCTION 133
43. 25. Is There a Southeast Asian Development Model? 135
44. 26. Global Production Sharing, Trade Patterns, and Industrialization in Southeast Asia 140
45. 27. Chinese Trade Policy After (Almost) Ten Years in the WTO: A Post-Crisis Stocktake 145
46. 28. Southeast Asia Beyond the Global Financial Crisis: Managing Capital Flows 150
47. 29. Impact of Eurozone Financial Shocks on Southeast Asian Economies 153
48. 30. The Collective Influence of Smaller States in the US-China Security Dilemma 157
49. 31. China and Japan in “ASEAN Plus” Multilateral Arrangements: Raining on the Other Guy’s Parade 160
50. SECTION V: INSTITUTIONS OF ASEAN
51. INTRODUCTION 167
52. 32. The Cambodia-Thailand Conflict: A Test for ASEAN 169
53. 33. ASEAN in the Twenty-First Century: A Sceptical Review 172
54. 34. Facing Unfair Criticisms 176
55. 35. Challenges Facing the New ASEAN Secretary-General 180
56. 36. ASEAN Governing Mechanisms 184
57. SECTION VI: ASSESSING ASEAN’S INTERNAL POLICIES
58. INTRODUCTION 191
59. 37. Challenging ASEAN: A “Topological” View 193
60. 38. Thinking and Feeling ASEAN: The Challenges of Integration and Identity 198
61. ASEAN Political Security Community
62. 39. Achieving an ASEAN Security Community 205
63. 40. Turning Points Beyond the Comfort Zone? 209
64. ASEAN Economic Community
65. 41. Implementing the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 217
66. 42. Towards an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 221
67. 43. Understanding ASEAN’s Connectivity 226
68. 44. Enhancing the Institutional Framework for AEC Implementation 231
69. 45. What is a Single Market? An Application to the Case of ASEAN 237
70. 46. Non-Tariff Barriers: A Challenge to Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 241
71. 47. Towards a Truly Seamless Single Windows and Trade Facilitation Regime in ASEAN Beyond 2015 246
72. 48. An Assessment of Services Sector Liberalization in ASEAN 251
73. 49. Financial Integration Challenges in ASEAN beyond 2015 256
74. 50. Free Flow of Skilled Labour in ASEAN 261
75. 51. Toward a Single Aviation Market in ASEAN: Regulatory Reform and Industry Challenges 266
76. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
77. 52. An ASEAN Community for All: Exploring the Scope for Civil Society Engagement 273
78. 53. Civil Society and the ASEAN Community 278
79. 54. The Evolving ASEAN Human Rights System: The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration of 2012 284
80. 55. Divided or Together? Southeast Asia in 2012 290
81. 56. The ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community 294
82. 57. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community: An Assessment of its Institutional Prospects 298
83. 58. Executive Summary of the Mid-Term Review of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint (2009–2015) 303
84. SECTION VII: ASSESSING ASEAN’S EXTERNAL INITIATIVES
85. INTRODUCTION 311
86. 59. Trust-Building in Southeast Asia: What Made it Possible? 313
87. 60. South China Sea: Glacial Progress Amid On-Going Tensions 317
88. ASEAN Processes
89. 61. Driving East Asian Regionalism: The Reconstruction of ASEAN’s Identity 323
90. 62. Pakistan, SAARC and ASEAN Relations 328
91. 63. Neither Skepticism nor Romanticism: The ASEAN Regional Forum as a Solution for the Asia-Pacific Assurance Game 334
92. 64. ASEAN Plus Three and the Rise of Reactionary Regionalism 337
93. 65. How the East Asia Summit Can Achieve its Potential 342
94. 66. ‘Talking Their Walk’? The Evolution of Defense Regionalism in Southeast Asia 347
95. 67. ASEAN FTAs: State of Play and Outlook for ASEAN’s Regional and Global Integration 352
96. 68. Taking ASEAN+1 FTAs Towards the RCEP 357
97. 69. RCEP and TPP: Comparisons and Concerns 362
98. 70. Enhancing the Effectiveness of CMIM and AMRO: Selected Immediate Challenges and Tasks 367
99. ASEAN’s Major Power Relations
100. 71. ASEAN’s Adventures 373
101. 72. Developing an Enduring Strategy for ASEAN 375
102. 73. Non-Traditional Security in China-ASEAN Cooperation: The Institutionalization of Regional Security Cooperation and the Evolution of East Asian Regionalism 378
103. 74. China-ASEAN FTA Changes ASEAN’s Perspective on China 384
104. 75. Japan’s Trade Policy with Asia 388
105. 76. Managing Integration in East Asia: Behind Border Issues in Japan-ASEAN Trade Agreements 392
106. 77. Fortifying the Japan-ASEAN Strategic Partnership: Abe’s Quest for Viable Hedging Policies 397
107. 78. Prospects for Korean-Southeast Asian Relations 401
108. 79. China’s Two Silk Roads: Implications for Southeast Asia 404
109. SECTION VIII: SOUTHEAST ASIA: PERIPHERAL NO MORE INTRODUCTION
110. INTRODUCTION 411
111. 80. ASEAN Beyond 2015: The Imperatives for Further Institutional Changes 413
112. 81. Design Faults: The Asia Pacific’s Regioinal Architecture 418
113. 82. ASEAN’s Economic Cooperation: Original Vision, Current Practice and Future Challenges 421
114. 83. The 2030 Architecture of Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Agreements 425
115. 84. ASEAN and Major Power Transitions in East Asia 429
116. BIBLIOGRAPHY 435
117. THE CONTRIBUTORS 471
118. THE COMPILERS 483