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Comment: The Asia Pacific community proposal: community, directorate or network?
A Short Paper for “the Asia-Pacific Community in the 21st Century”, a consultation at Sydney, 3-5 December 2009. -
ASEAN chief presses for bloc’s centrality
JAKARTA: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must remain at the core of regional affairs despite competing visions for a new Asia-Pacific diplomatic framework, the bloc’s chief said Friday. ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said the “plethora of regional architectures that has been proposed in recent times” suggested that the 10-nation bloc no longer had a [...] -
Political implications of the crisis for regional economies: The East Asia case
There are many political-security challenges in East Asia, such as terrorism, proliferation of WMD, transnational crime, climate change, energy security, pandemic diseases, and natural disasters. However, in the last 18 months or so a new political-security challenge has arisen that has overridden everything else, not only in the East Asian region but also globally, namely [...] -
G-20: Gulliver and Lilliputians?
BY SIMON TAY - CRISES provoke changes. The initiative to bring together the world's 20 largest economies last November was one change the global economic crisis instigated. The Group of 20 (G-20) summit meeting in September in Pittsburgh was only its third. But the G-20 has already emerged as the key grouping in the global crisis.
