scholarly journals Could ASEAN be an economic and political counterbalance to rising china in the region?

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hoang Tien ◽  
Ha Van Dung
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
National Development ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Rising China ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
The Right

National security is one of the most critical elements for the society, economy and the political system of a given country. Especially, it is unconditionally important for the stability, sustainability and prosperity of national development. Moreover, it is also unconditio¬nally the top priority for all ASEAN countries that have to cope with the continually rising China in all aspects of development of the Asia-Pacific region. The present article is using case study analysis and comparative empirical analysis as a research methodology to investigate and find out the right answer to the question exposed in its title. The article approaches and treats security and military science as interdisciplinary area of contemporary research. At the same time they are considered as one of the branches of social science. In the beginning of 21st century, the economic relations as well as the geo-political relations between China and ASEAN have made many progresses and positive changes towards right direction, in line with common principles of peaceful and secured development in the region. However, this current relationship still shows many difficulties and obstacles that the two sides need to solve and overcome in order to benefit from the existing potentials of each other. The first aim of this present article is to focus on overall complex relationship between ASEAN and China that could pose real threat and danger to the ASEAN nations in terms of its inability to counterbalance the rising China in the Asia Pacific region. The second aim of the article is to propose some useful recommendations and viable solutions to guard the safety of the people, security in the society and economy, the political existence of the ASEAN bloc.

scholarly journals REVIEW: An emotional, eternal life struggle for peace, justice

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Depth Of Field ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Investigative Journalism

Few books have been published in Oceania offering the political and social resonance achieved by some photojournalists in the Asia-Pacific region and further afield internationally. Books come to mind such as Depth of Field, a powerful collection of photographs of poverty and repression in the Philippines; The Brotherhood, a revealing portrayal of a corrupt police precinct in Manila by Alex Baluyut for the Philippines Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Trends and Developments in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
National Development ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The One

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article. The demographic, historical, cultural, and political-economic complexity of the vast Asia Pacific Region poses a great challenge to making sense of the region’s higher education (HE) trends. Yet, several of these trends are indeed enduring and comparable. The interplay of these trends and developments continually shape the architecture of higher education in the region. A sampling of these trends focuses on one of the basic frames of higher education, namely that of increasing access, equity, and capacity. This, in turn, has led to the tension between massification on the one hand, and issues of quality assurance on the other. While national development is often the primary goal of tertiary education, regionalism has increasingly challenged these more parochial concerns. Within the region, student and faculty mobility, migration, and internationalization have emerged with greater force within the sometimes confusing context of globalization. At the upper end of the HE spectrum, the pressure of seeking to achieve excellence in research and innovation has resulted in another predicament, leading to what might be called an accelerated academy. These forces and factors, among others, are influencing the pathway of HE in the Asia Pacific region as we move into the 21st century.

scholarly journals Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Mostafanezhad ◽  
Joseph M Cheer ◽  
Harng Luh Sin
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region

Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region.

Environmental Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Could We Hang Out Sometime?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît MAYER
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Environmental Migration ◽  
The Pacific

Several proposals for global legal governance of environmental migration have recently been published, almost exclusively by Western scholars. The present article denounces the geographical and intellectual disconnect between descriptive works on environmental migration as a phenomenon and the normative studies on the developments in law and governance. It suggests that this disconnect has resulted in a post-colonial approach towards tackling environmental migration, which could impede the protection of environmental migrants. While recalling that governance of environmental migration is most likely to succeed within a regional framework, this article pleads for a home-grown legal approach of environmental migration in the Asia-Pacific. Participating in a multilateral discussion is a unique opportunity for the rising countries of Asia and the Pacific to strengthen their growing diplomatic roles and to demonstrate their capacity in the development of liberal forms of transnational governance.

scholarly journals Bagaimana Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Menyesuaikan Harapan dan Menjawab Tantangan untuk Mencapai Berbagai Tujuannya?

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beginda Pakpahan
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Right

APEC has been established since 1989 with 21 member countries. The crucial questions are what are major works of APEC from 1994 to present time? What are APEC's current challenges? And, how APEC manages its hopes and responds to the challenges in order to reach its goals? This article argues that APEC is on the right track to attain the Bogor goals by pursuing trade liberalization in its member countries. There are several works which have been achieved by APEC, for example: its achievements for trade liberalization in goods and its support for facilitating foreign investment in the Asia-Pacific region. However, there are several challenges for APEC, such as the complexity of regional cooperation in South-East and East Asia and the social implications for vulnerable groups in developing countries within APEC as negative impacts of trade liberalization. Consequently, APEC should manage its hopes and responds challenges in order to meet its goals. APEC must adjust its hopes to be matched with the latest political and economic developments in the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, South-East and East Asia become more integrated economic regions and apply an open regionalism for other countries from outside of these regions to engage with the developments in these regions. Overall, APEC must respond to crucial challenges (e.g. geo-politics and geo-economics) in the Asia-Pacific region which have changed overtime.

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