Towards ASEAN's fifth decade: performance, perspectives and lessons for change

This is a special issue of The Pacific Review which covers articles written by contributing authors such as Mely Caballero-Anthony, to commemorate 40 years of ASEAN. Articles include: 1. Forty years of ASEAN (by Shaun Narine); 2. Power, interest or culture - is there a paradigm that explains ASEAN's political role best? (by Timo Kivima?ki); 3. The ASEAN alternative? Ideas, institutions and the challenge to 'global' governance (by Richard Stubbs); 4. Fighting irrelevance: an economic community 'with ASEAN characteristics' (by John Ravenhill); 5. ASEAN and the emerging , monetary regionalism: a case of limited contribution (by Heribert Dieter); 6. Non-traditional security and infectious diseases in ASEAN: going beyond the rhetoric of securitization to deeper institutionalization (by Mely Caballero-Anthony); 7. ASEAN's reluctant liberal turn and the thorny road (by Jo?rn Dosch). This issue also includes an introductory article titled "40 years of ASEAN: perspectives, performance and lessons for change" by Ju?rn Ru?land and Anja Jetschke

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