By Alice Ba
According to Alice Ba, the solutions lie in ASEAN's founding arguments: arguments that have been premised on an assumed nearby disunity. She demonstrates how those arguments draw severe causal connections that make Southeast Asian regionalism an important reaction to difficulties, supply upward push to its defining informality and consensus-seeking technique, and likewise constrain ASEAN's regionalism. Tracing debates approximately ASEAN's intra- and extra-regional family members over 4 many years, she argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds gentle on intervening tactics of argument and debate, and highlights interacting fabric, ideational, and social forces within the building of areas and regionalisms.
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