Institutions of the Asia-Pacific: ASEAN, APEC and beyond

Institutions of the Asia-Pacific: ASEAN, APEC and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-131

  Beeson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84917250531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203893210     Document Type: Book

References (14)

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2. Beeson, Mark, Regionalism, Globalization and East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). Overview of regional development that stresses the inter-linked nature of political-economic and geopolitical factors.
3. Caballero-Anthony, M., Regional Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond the ASEAN Way (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005). Useful introduction to Southeast Asian security issues with strong empirical component.
4. Curley, M. G. and Thomas, N., eds., Advancing East Asian Regionalism (London: Routledge, 2007). Good coverage of a wide range of regional development issues with a nice combination of younger and more established scholars.
5. Dent, C..M., New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006). Leading analyst of regional trade issues provides comprehensive overview of regional FTAs.
6. Emmers, R., Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). Broadly realist account of institutional development in Southeast Asia with particular focus on the ARF.
7. Haacke, J., ASEAN’s Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Developments and Prospects (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003). Exhaustively researched account of the origins and influence of the ASEAN way in particular and normative influences more generally.
8. Henning, C. R., East Asian Financial Cooperation (Washington DC: Institute for International Economics, 2002). Excellent introduction to the politics of, and background to, financial cooperation at the regional level in East Asia.
9. Ikenberry, G. J. and Mastanduno, M., eds., International Relations and the Asia-Pacific (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). Stellar cast of mainly North American scholars give U.S.–centric take on the theory and practice of international relations in an Asia-Pacific context.
10. Jones, D.M. and Smith, M. L. R., “Making process, not progress: ASEAN and the evolving East Asian regional order,” International Security 32, no. 1 (2007): 148–84. Provocative analysis of ASEAN’s role and activities by two prominent skeptics.
11. Lincoln, E. J., East Asian Economic Regionalism (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004). Empirically rich, albeit skeptical account of the prospects for economic integration in East Asia.
12. Pempel, T. J., ed., Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). Prominent area specialists provide excellent introduction to regional development in East Asia, especially its economic and political aspects.
13. Ravenhill, J., APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Definitive analysis of APEC’s origins, development and prospects.
14. Stubbs, R., “ASEAN Plus Three: Emerging East Asian regionalism?” Asian Survey 42, no. 3 (2002): 440–55. Best article thus far on the origins of, and logic behind, the emergence of ASEAN Plus Three.