Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia

Using the lens of the "commons," this book highlights the key development interests and challenges that members of ASEAN collectively recognize. The concept of "regional commons" involves three dimensions: the management of common resources; cooperation in the production of common goods; and cooperation in overcoming common challenges. Contributors to the collection discuss the ways in which the Plus Three arrangements that ASEAN has with China, Japan and South Korea address or complicate these three dimensions Each chapter additionally provides a window onto the varied foundations, historical explanations and political contexts of the common social and economic development agendas that have emerged in APT countries. The book offers insights into the multi-stranded cooperative partnerships that increasingly define development practice and discourse in the new East Asia.

Kong Chong Ho is Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice Dean (Research) at National University of Singapore.

Amado Mendoza is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines

Siriporn Wajjwalku is Associate Professor of Political Science at Thammasat University, Thailand

Osamu Yoshida is Professor of Political Science at Hiroshima University, Japan