National Interest or Regional Interest (The Political Economy of ASEAN Cooperation)

Author: Zong Zichang, Guo Youxin
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book primarily studies cooperation among ASEAN countries. ASEAN, as an arrangement for regional cooperation among countries in Southeast Asia, aims to create a favorable regional environment for the development of each country. This includes the following four aspects: First, achieving reconciliation among regional countries and resolving intercountry conflicts; Second, opposing foreign aggression and maintaining peace in Southeast Asia; Third, opposing foreign interference and safeguarding regional stability; Fourth, expanding economic cooperation and promoting regional prosperity. This book will introduce and analyze ASEAN cooperation from the above four aspects. In its writing, it will closely follow the prominent red line of conflicts between national interests and regional interests, analyzing the interests of each country behind every institutional initiative, the bargaining and outcomes surrounding these initiatives, and how each country, in the process of implementation, acts for its own interests, even at the expense of disrupting the hard-won cooperative system, and how other countries take actions and make adjustments based on their own interests.