Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific

Description

This book offers the most comprehensive analysis yet of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), which remains the foremost dialogue forum for the promotion of cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific.

Contributors focus on the perspectives and roles of the key players in the ARF – ASEAN, the United States, China, Japan, and Australia – and discuss to what extent these participants have shaped the Forum's institutional development and affected its achievements and prospects against the backdrop of the evolving regional security architecture. They also examine in depth how participants have used the Forum to respond to a range of important transnational security issues and challenges, including terrorism and maritime security, as well as disaster relief. This work also explores how, despite the difficulties in reaching a new consensus regarding the collective pursuit of preventive diplomacy, some activist participants have succeeded in bringing about a notable, albeit incipient, 'practical turn' in the ARF’s security cooperation.

This book will appeal to students of South-East Asian Politics, Asian Security Studies and International Relations in general.

Contents

1. The ASEAN Regional Forum and Cooperative Security: Introduction Jürgen Haacke and Noel M. Morada 2. The ASEAN Regional Forum: Origins and Evolution Noel M. Morada 3. The United States and the ASEAN Regional Forum: A Delicate Balancing Act Brad Glosserman 4. China’s Membership of the ARF and the Emergence of an East Asian Diplomatic and Security Culture Christopher R. Hughes 5. Japan and the ASEAN Regional Forum: From Enthusiasm to Disappointment Takeshi Yuzawa 6. Australia-Japan-U.S. Trilateral Strategic Dialogue and the ARF: Extended Bilateralism or A New Minilateral Option? Kuniko Ashizawa 7. The Accidental Driver: ASEAN in the ARF Rizal Sukma 8. The ASEAN Regional Forum and Transnational Challenges: Little Collective Securitization, Some Practical Cooperation Jürgen Haacke 9. The ASEAN Regional Forum and Counter-Terrorism Noel M. Morada 10. Maritime Security and the ARF: Why the Focus on Dialogue Rather than Action? JN Mak 11. Securitisation Practices in Indonesia and the Philippines and their Impact on the Management of Security Challenges in ASEAN and the ARF David A. Boyd and Jörn Dosch 12. The ARF and Cooperative Security: More of the Same? Jürgen Haacke and Noel M. Morada

Author Bio

Jürgen Haacke is Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of ASEAN’s Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects (2003) and Myanmar’s Foreign Policy: Domestic Influences and International Implications (2006).

Noel M. Morada is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. His publications and research interests focus on ASEAN, the ARF, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and human development and human security issues in Southeast Asia.

Related Subjects

1. Asian Politics
2. Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns
3. International Organizations
4. South East Asian Studies
5. Asian Studies