Hard Choices
Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia
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Author
Publication
2008-06-01 - Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research C
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL12307432M
- ISBN-139781931368131
- ISBN-101931368139
- OCLC Control Number185691318
- Goodreads4603621
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- LibraryThing8766706
Classifications
- LCCUA835.5 .H335 2008
Description
Security has long trumped democracy as a priority for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But the brutal dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar, political pluralism in Indonesia, and the global growth of democratic norms have led some Southeast Asians to question ASEAN's habit of turning a blind eye to domestic abuses by member states. The concept of regional security, meanwhile, is being reoriented from military threats toward new dangers to health and the environment and from state security toward human security. Will promoting democracy cause local autocrats to hunker down and split ASEAN into hostile camps? Will ignoring demands for democracy allow domestic pressures to rise to dangerous levels? Should Burma/Myanmar be expelled or engaged? How should ASEAN respond to nontraditional threats to security in which member states are themselves implicated? In Hard Choices, experts grapple with these and other key and controversial questions for Southeast Asia today and tomorrow.505.
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