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ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (review)

ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (review) Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 34, No. 2 (2012), pp. 303­06 DOI:10.1355/cs34-2i ©2012ISEAS ISSN0129-797Xprint/ISSN1793-284Xelectronic ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia. By Lee Jones. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Hardcover: 262pp. Lee Jones' new book on ASEAN and the states of Southeast Asia is refreshingly iconoclastic. It tackles one of the core tenets of ASEANology that has been intellectually reinforced by the Constructivist turn in the analysis of this regional organization. The icon that Jones' book takes aim at is the scholarly near consensus "on the absolute centrality of the non-interference principle for ASEAN states" (p. 2). A consensus that Jones' correctly notes echoes the official rhetoric of ASEAN and its member states. There are three steps to Jones' argument that this consensus is misplaced. First, he establishes that a range of Constructivist, RealistandEnglishSchoolscholarsofASEANupholdthisconsensus despite their intellectual differences and debates over other aspects of the organization. Second, he establishes the case that ASEAN member states have repeatedly intervened in Southeast Asia both in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods in apparent contradiction to ASEAN's commitment to non-interference. Where he sees other scholars of ASEAN as downplaying or ignoring these interventions, he makes them the empirical core of his argument. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 34, No. 2 (2012), pp. 303­06 DOI:10.1355/cs34-2i ©2012ISEAS ISSN0129-797Xprint/ISSN1793-284Xelectronic ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia. By Lee Jones. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Hardcover: 262pp. Lee Jones' new book on ASEAN and the states of Southeast Asia is refreshingly iconoclastic. It tackles one of the core tenets of ASEANology that has been intellectually reinforced by the Constructivist turn in the analysis of this regional organization. The icon that Jones' book takes aim at is the scholarly near consensus "on the absolute centrality of the non-interference principle for ASEAN states" (p. 2). A consensus that Jones' correctly notes echoes the official rhetoric of ASEAN and its member states. There are three steps to Jones' argument that this consensus is misplaced. First, he establishes that a range of Constructivist, RealistandEnglishSchoolscholarsofASEANupholdthisconsensus despite their intellectual differences and debates over other aspects of the organization. Second, he establishes the case that ASEAN member states have repeatedly intervened in Southeast Asia both in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods in apparent contradiction to ASEAN's commitment to non-interference. Where he sees other scholars of ASEAN as downplaying or ignoring these interventions, he makes them the empirical core of his argument.

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Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs – Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: Aug 22, 2012

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