| ID | 103586 |
| Title Proper | ASEAN regional forum and preventive diplomacy |
| Other Title Information | built to fail? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Emmers, Ralf ; Tan, See Seng |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Various reasons purport to explain why the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum (ARF) has failed to evolve from confidence building to preventive diplomacy (PD). These include the ARF's large membership, its strict adherence to sovereignty and noninterference principles that contradict any effective implementation of PD, and contrasting strategic perspectives among its participants. Although these factors have certainly hindered security cooperation, none are sufficient conditions by themselves to explain the forum's ambivalence toward PD. The authors argue that these factors do not tell the whole story, not least when they have not stood in the way of experiments in PD by other processes in the Asia-Pacific. The claim here is that the ARF has evolved into a highly inflexible forum, which in turn has led to the formalization of its approach to PD. This has severely inhibited the adoption of a PD agenda and actionable measures under the ARF framework. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Security Vol. 7, No. 1; Jan-Apr 2011: p.44 - 60 |
| Journal Source | Asian Security Vol. 7, No. 1; Jan-Apr 2011: p.44 - 60 |
| Key Words | ASEAN Regional Forum ; Diplomacy ; Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum |