This paper attempts to elaborate a milestone document between ASEAN and China in 2002, the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) which has not fulfilled its mission in building mutual trust between claimant states and preventing the potential dispute from escalating...

This paper discusses the political motivations behind the evolution of economic cooperation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from its founding to the measures agreed upon to integrate its economy. Those measures include the reduction and elimination of tariffs on and the...

This paper seeks to explain the contradictory pattern of cooperation within ASEAN. To do so, it starts from a conventional empirical puzzle: Why do ASEAN member states translate their intent of regional cooperation into institutional designs that are incapable of coping with those problems the...

This paper makes the case that time is ripe for the countries in southeast and northeast Asia to actively seek greater integration with India. The case is based on two arguments. First, China has emerged as an increasingly aggressive and belligerent power bringing it into conflict with its...

Although economic linkages between South Asia and Southeast Asia have been strengthened over the past decade, integration between these two regions remains limited. Can new approaches to regional integration help revitalize trade and economic links between South Asia and Southeast Asia This...

Although economic linkages between South Asia and Southeast Asia have been strengthened over the past decade, integration between these two regions remains limited. Can new approaches to regional integration help revitalize trade and economic links between South Asia and Southeast Asia This...