Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION: Regional Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond the ASEAN Way
- 1 Regionalism and Regional Security: Locating ASEAN
- 2 ASEAN's Mechanisms of Conflict Management: Revisiting the ASEAN Way
- 3 ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict: Testing the Limits of the ASEAN Way
- 4 ASEAN Regional Forum: Extending the ASEAN Way in Managing Regional Order
- 5 ASEAN's Track Two Diplomacy: Reconstructing Regional Mechanisms of Conflict Management
- 6 The Asian Economic Crisis and Other Challenges: Turning Points Beyond the Comfort Zone?
- 7 ASEAN and Civil Society: Enhancing Regional Mechanisms for Managing Security
- 8 Conclusion: Beyond the ASEAN Way
- APPENDIX I Declaration of ASEAN Concord II (Bali Concord II)
- APPENDIX II Recommendations of the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration
- APPENDIX III ASEAN Vision 2020
- APPENDIX IV Declaration of ASEAN Concord
- Selected References and Further Readings
- Index
- About the Author
6 - The Asian Economic Crisis and Other Challenges: Turning Points Beyond the Comfort Zone?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION: Regional Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond the ASEAN Way
- 1 Regionalism and Regional Security: Locating ASEAN
- 2 ASEAN's Mechanisms of Conflict Management: Revisiting the ASEAN Way
- 3 ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict: Testing the Limits of the ASEAN Way
- 4 ASEAN Regional Forum: Extending the ASEAN Way in Managing Regional Order
- 5 ASEAN's Track Two Diplomacy: Reconstructing Regional Mechanisms of Conflict Management
- 6 The Asian Economic Crisis and Other Challenges: Turning Points Beyond the Comfort Zone?
- 7 ASEAN and Civil Society: Enhancing Regional Mechanisms for Managing Security
- 8 Conclusion: Beyond the ASEAN Way
- APPENDIX I Declaration of ASEAN Concord II (Bali Concord II)
- APPENDIX II Recommendations of the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration
- APPENDIX III ASEAN Vision 2020
- APPENDIX IV Declaration of ASEAN Concord
- Selected References and Further Readings
- Index
- About the Author
Summary
ASEAN rose out of the ashes of Konfrontasi…
–Ghazali Shafie, Malaysia (1981)It will be immensely difficult for ASEAN to manoeuvre itself through an era which will see many treacherous cross currents. With new crew on board, it will become even more difficult to navigate. It will take time for our new members to adjust and be moulded into a part of the ASEAN team. This is a real challenge.
– Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore (1997)We need mechanisms and processes which enable bridges to be formed, make accommodation possible, and achieve compromises. We must certainly avoid “burning bridges” because it leads to standoff, disputes and the use of force — the route to disaster
— Prince Ranarridh, Kingdom of Cambodia (1997)Increasingly, ASEAN will have to summon regional, cooperative solutions for problems that are, more and more, regional in scope. Indeed, the way in which ASEAN is dealing and has to deal with its most outstanding problems today sheds light on the way in which ASEAN will and must handle its problems in the new millennium; that is, is a co-ordinated, cooperative way.
— Rodolfo Severino, ASEAN Secretary-General (1998)INTRODUCTION
In 1997, ASEAN was gearing up to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary with a toast. In the run up to its Commemorative Summit in Kuala Lumpur that was scheduled in December 1997, year-long preparations were set in place aimed at highlighting the achievements of ASEAN as a successful regional organization. More significantly, the Summit was also supposed to showcase the fulfillment of the vision of ASEAN's founding fathers of bringing together all the states in Southeast Asia. Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia were to be admitted as ASEAN's new members. However, the events that followed turned what would have been a joyous regional event into a more subdued affair. It was in 1997 when a series of crises hit the region, casting a pall on the celebrated success of ASEAN. This period and the years that followed became a watershed in ASEAN's history.
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- Regional Security in Southeast AsiaBeyond the ASEAN Way, pp. 194 - 231Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2005