This paper considers ASEAN’s value added and limitations as regards its ability to play a meaningful and practical security role in East Asia and the Asia Pacific. It argues that ASEAN’s contributions to regional security and within ASEAN-plus arrangements are not uniform. Instead,...

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Review of the edited volume: Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu (eds.) (2008), Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, Stanford: Stanford University Press; ISBN 10: 0804758107, 455 pages

Review of the edited volume: Bräuchler, Birgit (ed.) (2009), Reconciling Indonesia. Grassroots Agency for Peace, London/New York: Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415487047, 272 pages.