Community in Asean: Ideas & Practises

Community in Asean: Ideas & Practises . 2008. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 978-967-942-857-5 (paper back cover). RM30.00. 196 pages. Tham Siew Yean, Lee Poh Ping, Norani Othman.

The ASEAN Heads of State at the meeting in Bali, Indonesia, took the decisive step of forming an ASEAN Community from the present organization of ASEAN by the year 2020. This date was subsequently pushed forward to 2015. In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of ASEAN in 1967, the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) undertook a study of the ASEAN community. This book is the outcome of the study. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book seeks to examine the following questions in each of the chapters: (i) How do we distinguish between a formal community with the big ‘C’ and an informal community with a small ‘c’? ; (ii) What are the forces that are driving both the formal community and the informal community? In particular what are the signs that an ASEAN community is both developing and strengthening? ; and (iii) Is there a need for an ASEAN Community? Should we not look to ways of strengthening the ASEAN Community instead? This book is recommended for students, researchers and the general public who are intereted in ASEAN and Malaysia’s role in enhancing the ASEAN Community.

THAM SIEW YEAN, ph.D, Professor and Director at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her other work with the penerbit UKM is The Emerging East Asian Community: Security & Economic Issues (co-edited with Lee Poh Ping and George T.Yu). LEE POH PING, Ph.D, Professor and Principal Fellow at the same institute. NORANI OTHMAN, Professor and Principal Fellow at the same institute. Her ther wrk with penerbit UKM in Elections and Democracy in Malaysia (co-edited with Mavis Puthcheary).

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