ASEAN-U.S. Relations

ASEAN-U.S. Relations
Author: Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2011-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814311553

"This book is the result of a workshop of the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) held in July 2010"--P. ix.

ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship

ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship
Author: Peter A. Petri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780866382465

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is strategically significant because of its size, dynamism, and role in the Asian economic and security architectures. This paper examines how ASEAN seeks to strengthen these assets through "centrality" in intraregional and external policy decisions. It recommends a two-speed approach toward centrality in order to maximize regional incomes and benefit all member economies: first, selective engagement by ASEAN members in productive external partnerships and, second, vigorous policies to share gains across the region. This strategy has solid underpinnings in the Kemp-Wan theorem on trade agreements. It would warrant, for example, a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with incomplete ASEAN membership, complemented with policies to extend gains across the region. The United States could support this framework by pursuing deep relations with some ASEAN members, while broadly assisting the region's development.

China-asean Relations: Economic And Legal Dimensions

China-asean Relations: Economic And Legal Dimensions
Author: Huaqun Zeng
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2006-03-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 981447861X

With China's dynamic economic growth, its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark China-ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement in 2002. Beyond trade and economic activities, China-ASEAN cooperation has broadened to cover the environment, science and technology, non-traditional security areas and related legal issues. China's relations with ASEAN have reached a new era where the two sides have established an economic, legal and political framework for their comprehensive cooperation.This book provides a comprehensive overview of China-ASEAN relations from economic, legal and political perspectives and examines various important topics related to non-traditional security issues, free trade zone and regional economic integration, border trade and environmental issues, and maritime security.

The United States in the New Asia

The United States in the New Asia
Author: Evan A. Feigenbaum
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2009
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 0876094698

At head of title: International Institutions and Global Governance Program.

ASEAN-China Relations

ASEAN-China Relations
Author: Saw Swee-Hock
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9812303421

The past decade has witnessed rapid development in ASEAN-China relations. Both sides now have more in common than before, though differences still exist. ASEAN and China have established a promising strategic partnership ensuring peace, stability, co-operation as well as prosperity for the region. New challenges will, however, continue to emerge to test the resolve of the partnership. This book examines some of the areas of convergence and divergence and the possible trajectories of the development of ASEAN-China relations.

ASEAN-China Economic Relations

ASEAN-China Economic Relations
Author: Saw Swee-Hock
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9812304223

Examines the rapidly expanding economic relations between ASEAN and China in recent years, covering trade, investments, economic challenges, competition and opportunities in the various sectors of the two economies.

The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations

The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations
Author: Gregory Raymond
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429626991

Thailand, a long-standing defence partner of the United States and ASEAN’s second largest economy, occupies a geostrategically important position as a land bridge between China and maritime Southeast Asia. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current state of US-Thai relations, paying particular attention to how the United States is perceived by a wide range of people in the Thai defence establishment and highlighting the importance of historical memory. The book outlines how the US-Thai relationship has been complicated and at times turbulent, discusses how Thailand is deeply embedded in multi-faceted relationships with many Asian states, not just China, and examines how far the United States is blind to the complexities of Asian international relations by focusing too much on China. The book concludes by assessing how US-Thai relations are likely to develop going forward. Additionally, the work contributes to alliance theory by showing how domestic politics shapes memory, which in turn affects perceptions of other states.

China, The United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia

China, The United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia
Author: David B. H. Denoon
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1479810320

Distinguished experts explain the economic trends and varied political goals at work in Southeast Asia. With China’s emergence as a powerful entity in Southeast Asia, the region has become an unlikely site of conflict between two of the world’s great powers. The United States, historically regarded as the protector of Pacific Southeast Asia—consisting of nations such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Malaysia—is now called upon to respond to what many would consider bullying on the part of the Chinese. These and other countries have become the economic and political engine of China. While certainly inclined to help the country’s former allies, the United States has grown undeniably closer to China in the recent decades of global interconnected economic growth. China, the United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia uncovers and delves into the complicated dynamics of this situation. Covering topics such as the controversial response to human rights violations, the effects of global economic interconnectedness, and contested sovereignty over resource-rich islands, this volume provides a modern and nuanced perspective on the state of the region. For anyone interested in understanding the evolving global balance of power, China, the United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia illuminates how countries as different as Thailand and Indonesia see the growing competition between Beijing and Washington.

ASEAN-Japan Relations

ASEAN-Japan Relations
Author: Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814519227

""As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the ASEAN-Japan Dialogue Partnership, the essays in this book remind us, and amplify the ASEAN-Japan relations. The complexities of this relationship, including the external influences which have impinged on its development over the years, are cogently discussed and recorded for the younger generation and students of ASEAN-Japan ties. The intricacy and spread of ASEAN-Japan cooperation mechanisms are also well highlighted in this book, while several thought-provoking commentaries on the future of this four-decade old partnership give pause to the reade.

The United States in the Indo-Pacific

The United States in the Indo-Pacific
Author: Oliver Turner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526135027

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This edited collection examines the political, economic and security legacies of former US President Barack Obama in Asia and the Pacific, following two terms in office between 2009 and 2017. In a region that has only become more vivid in the American political imagination since Obama left office, this volume interrogates the endurance of Obama’s legacies in what is increasingly reimagined in Washington as the Indo-Pacific. Advancing our understanding of Obama’s style, influence and impact throughout the region, this volume explores dimensions of US relations and interactions with key Indo-Pacific states including China, India, Japan, North Korea and Australia; multilateral institutions and organisations such the East Asia Summit and ASEAN; and salient issue areas such as regional security, politics and diplomacy, and the economy. How far has the Trump administration progressed in challenging or disrupting Obama’s Pivot to Asia? What differences can we discern in the declared or effective US strategy towards Asia and to what extent has it radically shifted or displaced Obama-era legacies? Including contributions from high-profile scholars and policy practitioners such as Michael Mastanduno, Bruce Cumings, Maryanne Kelton, Robert Sutter and Sumit Ganguly, contributors examine these questions at the halfway point of the 2017–21 Presidency of Donald Trump, as his administration opens a new and potentially divergent chapter of American internationalism.