The Indonesian Way - 9781503602854

The Indonesian WayASEAN, Europeanization, and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy\nAuthor(s): Jrgen Rland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503602854, 978-1503602854\nSynopsis\nOn December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration. Political commentators and media outlets, however, greeted its establishment with little fanfare. Implicitly and explicitly, they suggested that the AC was only the beginning: Southeast Asia, they seemed to say, was taking its first steps on a linear process of unification that would converge on the model of the European Union.\n\n In The Indonesian Way, Jrgen Rland challenges this previously unquestioned diffusion.