Feature articles in this theme:
By Christopher M. Dent
01 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
East Asia has achieved one of the most profound economic
transformations in recorded history, becoming the new workshop of the world, the location of fast-emerging
markets, and a new financial power in the making. But some degree of confusion as well as tension within the region remains,
especially with regard to which regional body should be the key driver
of East Asian regional community-building.
By Hugh White
01 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
Asia's lack of progress
toward regional political integration is at first glance surprising, given that it has such a good
model of successful political integration based on multilateral
institution-building -- the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. But if visions of robust Asia-wide multilateral institutions on the ASEAN model
have failed to materialize, it is because they have failed to mesh with the
shifting foundations of Asia's underlying strategic order.
By Amitav Acharya
01 Jun 2010 |
World Politics Review
In an article published in the Winter 1993-94 issue of International Security, Aaron Friedberg, a professor at Princeton University, contrasted Europe's "thick alphabet soup" of institutions with Asia's "thin gruel." Some two decades later, no one would now describe Asia's institutional landscape as a thin gruel. But are the existing institutions mere talk-shops, or are they genuine forces for stability and security?