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NEW
ANALYSIS QUESTIONS TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF EAST ASIAN REGIONAL COMMUNITIES (THE
STANLEY FOUNDATION): 09/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 09 November 2007 -- Muscatine,
Iowa -- Why do some countries in East Asia join regional organizations and
others don’t? Asia expert Shaun Breslin explores this question and more in a
new analysis from the Stanley Foundation.
Analyzing
different Asian region-building initiatives and the subregional and national
perspectives on these efforts, Breslin argues that there is a lack of consensus
over which countries are part of the East Asian region and which are not. And he
examines the role of China as a driver in the debate between narrow and wider
visions of East Asia.
In the just
released policy analysis brief, titled Supplying Demand or Demanding Supply? An
Alternative Look at the Forces Driving East Asian Community Building, Breslin
concludes that promotion of the wider vision of region in the East Asia Summit
(EAS) represents a deliberate attempt to create an "oversupply of
region" and to neutralize Chinese power.
Like the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group before it, he argues, the EAS is an
"anti-region" supplied in order to prevent the emergence of a regional
community. And so long as the "supply of this region is not in equilibrium
with the demand for region," developing a form of region that
"works" and evolves into a functioning regional community will be
problematic.
The
analysis is available here:
Shaun
Breslin is a professor of Politics and International Studies at the University
of Warwick in the United Kingdom, and co-editor of the Pacific Review.
Breslin is available for a limited number of media interviews. Contact Keith
Porter (1.563-264-1500) for details, kporter@stanleyfoundation.org
The Stanley
Foundation seeks a secure peace with freedom and justice, built on world
citizenship and effective global governance. It brings fresh voices, original
ideas, and lasting solutions to debates on global and regional problems. The
foundation is a nonpartisan, private operating foundation, located in Muscatine,
Iowa, that focuses on peace and security issues and advocates principled
multilateralism. Online at www.stanleyfoundation.org.
Labels: The
Stanley Foundation, Shaun
Breslin, East
Asian Regional Communities, East
Asia Summit (EAS)
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