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Approaches conflicts in Southeast Asia from the perspective of conflict management in the region’s globalisation
Sheds new light on Southeast Asia’s regional stability from the standpoint of managing conflict
Contributes to Peace and Conflict Studies by enhancing the significance of good governance in conflict management and transformation
Highlights local perspectives on the conflicts under study
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book investigates the patterns of conflict management in contemporary Southeast Asia. The region has long been characterized by the twin process of state-formation and nation-building, which has been responsible for most of the region’s intrastate and interstate conflicts. While this process is still ongoing, regional conflicts and their management are increasingly affected by globalisation, which not only serves as a new source of, or exacerbating factor to, conflict, but also makes new instruments available for conflict management. Employing the concepts of incompatibility management and mediation regime, the book analyses the management of seven conflicts in the region: the Rohingya crisis and the Kachin conflict in Myanmar, the Khmer Krom conflict in Vietnam, the West Papua conflict in Indonesia, the political conflict in Thailand, the Mekong River conflicts involving five Southeast Asian countries and China and the transboundary haze problem emanating from Indonesia. The efforts to manage each of them are imagined as constituting a mediation regime, and its effectiveness is assessed in terms of good governance. Among the findings of the book is that the measures of manoeuvring around incompatibilities are employed predominantly in managing regional conflicts. In intrastate conflicts, which mostly involve ethnic minorities, the authorities first aim to eliminate, or impose its own position on, ethnic parties. When this strategy proves unsuccessful, they have no choice but manoeuvre around incompatibilities, which may eventually open up a space for mutual learning. In interstate conflicts, the manoeuvring around strategy works in a more straightforward manner, contributing to regional stability. However, the stability is achieved at the cost of local communities and the natural environment, which absorb the incompatibilities in conflict.
Keywords
- Conflict management in ASEAN
- Conflict management and transformation
- Globalisation of Southeast Asia
- Good governance in Southeast Asia
- Incompatability management in Southeast Asia
- Rohingya people in Myanmar
- Khmer Krom people in Vietnam
- Mekong River disputes
- South China Sea dispute
- Conflicts in the Myanmar border
- Haze problem in Southeast Asia
- Politics in South East Asia
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Heritage, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Mikio Oishi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN
Book Subtitle: Incompatibility Management through Good Governance
Editors: Mikio Oishi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9570-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9569-8Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9572-8Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9570-4Published: 11 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 220
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Conflict Studies, Asian Politics, Social Anthropology, International Relations Theory, International Security Studies