TY - BOOK ID - 85645215 TI - Hard choices : security, democracy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia AU - Emmerson, Donald K. AU - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies AU - Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center PY - 2009 SN - 9812308814 9812309144 PB - Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, DB - UniCat KW - National security KW - Regionalism KW - Democracy KW - National security policy KW - NSP (National security policy) KW - Security policy, National KW - Economic policy KW - International relations KW - Military policy KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Human geography KW - Nationalism KW - Interregionalism KW - Government policy KW - ASEAN KW - Association of Southeast Asian nations KW - Southeast Asia KW - Asia, Southeast KW - Asia, Southeastern KW - South East Asia KW - Southeastern Asia KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645215 AB - The region's most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism. Should ASEAN's leaders defend a member country's citizens against state predation for the sake of justice - and risk splitting ASEAN itself? Or should regional leaders privilege state security over human security for the sake of order - and risk being known as a dictators' club? Should ASEAN isolate or tolerate the junta in Myanmar? Is democracy a requisite to security, or is it the other way around? How can democratization become a regional project without fi rst transforming the Association into a "peoplecentered" organization? But how can ASEAN reinvent itself along such lines if its member states are not already democratic? How will its new Charter affect ASEAN's ability to make these hard choices? How is regionalism being challenged by transnational crime, infectious disease, and other border-jumping threats to human security in Southeast Asia? Why have regional leaders failed to stop the perennial regional "haze" from brush fi res in democratic Indonesia? Does democracy help or hinder nuclear energy security in the region? In this timely book - the second of a three-book series focused on Asian regionalism - ten analysts from six countries address these and other pressing questions that Southeast Asia faces in the twenty-first century. ER -