ASEAN and South Asia : Development Experience/edited by Baladas Ghoshal. 1998, xxxiv, 236 p., tables, $30.
Contents: Prologue/Baladas Ghoshal. Keynote address : Regional Cooperation and SAARC/Salman Khursheed. Foreword : Relevance of developmental models of one region for another/Gamani Corea. I. An overview: 1. Introduction/Baladas Ghoshal. 2. Regional organisations in conflict management: learning from the ASEAN experience/M.S. John and G.P. Ramachandra. II. ASEAN experience: 3. The ASEAN experience: lessons from the past and thoughts for the future/Sukhumbhand Paribatra. 4. The ASEAN as regional economic cooperation: a primer/Bernardo M. Villegas. 5. Indonesia's role in ASEAN: an ASEAN perspective/Dewi Fortuna Anwar. 6. Indonesia's role in ASEAN: an Indian perspective/V. Suryanarayan. 7. Integration in south-east Asian region: prospects and challenges/Pham Duc Thanh. 8. Thailand's foreign policy towards Vietnam and Cambodia and ASEAN reactions : an example for SAARC/Suchita Ghosh. III. Lessons for SAARC: 9. ASEAN and its relevance for SAARC (Economic aspect)/Mamoon Mansoor. 10. Instruments and modalities of fast track regional trade liberalisation: relevance of ASEAN experience for SAARC/Indra Nath Mukherji. 11. ASEAN experience and economic development in Nepal/Shankar Sharma. 12. Issues in harnessing economic resources in South Asia/Mahendra P. Lama. 13. APEC and open regionalism/Muchkund Dubey.
"The three decades of the ASEAN experiment in regional cooperation has brought in a new model of conflict management, regional stability and integration quite distinct from other regional organisations. How has ASEAN done it? What methods, styles and practices did the countries of ASEAN adopt to make their association a successful one? What political, economic, strategic and diplomatic moves did ASEAN pursue to promote political stability, economic development and to establish regional peace and security? This book explores various facets of ASEAN and its style of functioning to find an answer to these questions. It examines the ASEAN experience in establishing a regional community as well as its relevance for South Asia." (jacket)
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