ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia

With a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), this collection of 12 papers examines the evolution of multilateral security arrangements in East Asia. Emmers (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore) has organized the contributions into sections addressing ASEAN's role in institutional developments in East Asia, multilateralism and security cooperation in the region, and the institutionalization of great power relations, as well as the relevance of ASEAN to alternative approaches to regionalism. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ralf Emmers is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Multilateralism and Regionalism Programme in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Publications include Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia and Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF (both published by Routledge).