Conflict management and constructive engagement in Asean's expansion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8091438
AutoresRamses Amer (autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen20
Número5
Páginas1031-1048
Fecha de publicación1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThird World Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01436599913479
OpenAlexW2122880802
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

This article examines the expansion of membership in ASEAN which has occurred during the second half of the 1990s, and identifies the factors behind this process, with particular attention devoted to the efforts aimed at implementing the conflict management mechanisms of ASEAN on a wider regional level. The study takes as its starting point the rapprochement between the original member states of ASEAN and Vietnam and Laos, which began during the second half of the 1980s and gained momentum following the resolution of the Cambodian conflict in 1991. The first half of the 1990s was characterised by the gradual acceptance by other Southeast Asian countries of ASEAN's code of conduct for inter-state interaction. This paved the way for the accession to full membership in ASEAN of Vietnam in 1995, of Laos and Burma in 1997 and of Cambodia in late 1998. Given the considerable discrepancy in the level of economic development between the new and old members of ASEAN, the economic motivation for expanding ASEAN would be to facilitate foreign investment in the new members and open new markets for exports within an expanded ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). The article argues, however, that the political and security considerations are more important in explaining why the original members embarked on the process aimed at bringing all 10 Southeast Asian countries into ASEAN. It is in this context that the policy of constructive engagement and peaceful management of inter-state conflicts comes into play

Accession · Conflict management · Constructive · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · European union · Foreign direct investment · Geography · International trade · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Sociology · Southeast asia · Southeast Asian studies · State (computer science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Global trade and economics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law