Publisher's Synopsis
Since its inception, ASEAN has been widely regarded as the most successful regional organization in Asia and among the most durable groups in the developing world.
In the 1990's, following the settlement of the Cambodia conflict, ASEAN moved to a new stage in its evolution, by expanding its membership and extending its institutional model to anchor a wider Asia Pacific regional institution-building. But by the end of the decade, ASEAN had suffered major setbacks, especially from the economic crisis in 1997. Its weak response to this crisis, growing interstate tensions between Singapore and Malaysia, and Thailand and Burma, and its unwillingness to address the political crisis in Burma has cost it a good deal of international support and goodwill. Debates range over its prospects as a regional organization but when compared against the record of other regional groups in the developing world, and viewed counterfactually in terms of a region without ASEAN regionalism, ASEAN has been a remarkably positive example of Third World regionalism.
The volumes will include journal articles, book chapters, pamphlets and short monographs and excerpts from major books on the various themes identified above.
