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9781931368131
"Southeast Asia faces hard choices. The region's most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism." "How will its new Charter affect ASEAN's ability to make these hard choices? How is regionalism being challenged by transnational crime, infectious disease, and other border-jumping threats to human security in Southeast Asia? Why have regional leaders failed to stop the perennial regional "haze" from brush fires in democratic Indonesia? Docs democracy help or hinder nuclear energy security in the legion?" "In this timely book - the second of a three-book series focused on Asian regionalism - ten analysts from six countries address these and other pressing questions that Southeast Asia faces in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.Emmerson, Donald K. is the author of 'Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia', published 2008 under ISBN 9781931368131 and ISBN 1931368139.
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