Strategic Currents : : Emerging Trends in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Yang Razali Kassim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Ampatuan, Taharudin Piang,; Assyaukanie, Luthfi,; Bateman, Sam,; Beckman, Robert,; Boon, Hoo Tiang,; Caballero-Anthony, Mely,; Chan, Jane,; Chew, Alvin,; Chin, Yolanda,; Crow, Karim Douglas,; Desker, Barry,; Effendy, Bahtiar,; Emmers, Ralf,; Gang, Chen,; Hassan, Muhammad Haniff,; Ho, Joshua,; Horta, Loro,; Ibrahim, Anwar,; Ito, Go,; Jamil, Sofiah,; Kassim, Yang Razali,; Katsumata, Hiro,; Kyaw, Nyi Nyi,; Laksmana, Evan A.,; Lee, Terence,; Mingjiang, Li,; Mohan, C. Raja,; Parameswaran, Prashanth,; Ramakrishna, Kumar,; Roberts, Christopher B.,; Seng, Tan See,; Sue-Chia, Ng,; Tang, Shiping,; Vasu, Norman,
• HerausgeberIn: Razali Kassim, Yang,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

Southeast Asia may be going through a new phase. The region is experiencing new challenges as well as changes in its geostrategic and economic environment. Such changes have become more evident over the last few years, as manifested in a range of issues such as climate change, ASEAN identity, regionalism and religion. This volume reflects some of what possibly could be emerging trends in the region, as captured in a series of commentaries written for the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), the Nanyang Technological University between 2007 and early 2008. Edited by Yang Razali Kassim, and succinctly written in a readable and engaging style by regional experts, policy contributors and other personalities, including Malaysia's former deputy prime minister and finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, this book hopes to generate thinking on some of the key issues that are emerging to confront Southeast Asia and ASEAN.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ASEAN: At Decade’s Turn -- Suharto The End of an ASEAN Era -- ASEAN Regional Forum Towards Preventive Diplomacy -- The ASEAN Charter Controversy Between Big Talk and Modest Actions -- The ASEAN Community Trusting Thy Neighbour -- Prospects for an ASEAN Nuclear Cooperation A Common Nuclear Facility? -- ASEAN’s Future Identity Imagined or Imitation Community? -- THE MYANMAR CHALLENGE -- ASEAN Time to Suspend Myanmar -- Plight of Myanmar’s People Challenges for the International Community -- India’s Outdated Myanmar Policy Pressure for Change -- Rohingya Muslims Myanmar’s Forgotten People -- CLIMATE CHANGE -- ASEAN Act on Climate Change -- Coping with Nature’s Wrath Can Southeast Asia Afford to Wait? -- The Rush for Nuclear Energy in Southeast Asia Promises and Pitfalls -- The Security Dimension of Climate Change -- Climate Change ASEAN Plus 3’s New Worry -- POLITICAL ECONOMY AND REGIONALISM -- The Asian Financial Crisis 10 Years Later What Lessons Have We Learned? -- East Asian Identity After the Crisis -- The New Silk Road An Arab-Asian Free Trade Area? -- APEC Time for Second-Best Options -- SINGAPORE AND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 33 Days An Intense Month of High-Level Diplomacy -- The Tao of Spider-Man Lessons for Singapore Defence and Diplomacy -- Self-Radicalization The Case of Abdul Basheer Abdul Kader -- The Singapore Armed Forces and Domestic Security -- Multiculturalism in Singapore The Ties that Bind and Blind -- Why We Must Ponder the Improbable Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning -- REGIONAL SECURITY -- Trends in Piracy and Armed Sea Robbery in Southeast Asia -- Is Poso All about JI? The Roots of the Conflict -- The Southern Insurgency Rethinking Thailand’s Military Strategy -- Trust and Soft Power in War on Terror -- Abu Sayyaf’s New Leader Yasser Igasan the Religious Scholar SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE REGIONAL POWERS -- SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE REGIONAL POWERS -- East Asian Security India’s Rising Profile -- Rudd’s Rise Changes in Australia’s Strategic Directions -- Timor-Leste and China The Dragon’s Newest Friend -- A New Pro-Asia Doctrine? Japan’s Approach to East Asian Regionalism -- South China Sea Time for ASEAN-China Joint Development? -- SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CONTEMPORARY ISLAM -- The Rise of Religious Bylaws in Indonesia -- Turkey and the Türban The Dilemmas of Laicist Ideology -- New PAS, Young Ulama Re-Defining the Future of Islamist Politics -- Responding to the Idea of Hijrah (Migration) -- CONTRIBUTORS