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The Paradox of ASEAN Centrality: Timor-Leste Betwixt and Between /

The Paradox of ASEAN Centrality: Timor-Leste Betwixt and Between / edited by Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner. - 1 online resource - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023 . - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- Part 1: Political Process, Internal-External Constellations and Meta-Analysis -- 1 ASEAN in the Making: Centralities and Peripheries -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- 2 Timor-Leste’s Membership of ASEAN: The Political Process and Its Discontents -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- 3 ASEAN and Timor-Leste: An Analysis of Decision-Making Dynamics -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- Part 2: Neighbors and Kin, Big Men and Brothers, and the Ecumene at Large -- 4 Is There an Endless Search for New (Overseas) Younger Brother(s)? Timor-Leste and Its Ecumenic Ambitions -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- 5 ASEAN and Timor-Leste: A Discourse on Centrality, Sociopolitical Negotiations and Relationships -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- 6 Neighbors and Kin: ASEAN as an Ecumene? Reality Constructions from a Timorese Perspective -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes and Nadine Lobner -- 7 Disputing Centralities amidst Covid-19: The Triangular Relationship of ASEAN, China and Timor-Leste -- Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner and Kaian Lam -- Postscript: Timor-Leste ASEAN Membership: Rethinking the Debate -- Ariel Mota Alves -- Index.

ASEAN, as being on the very core of this matter, deserves close attention through the case of Timor-Leste for understanding international strategic inclusion-exclusion dynamics. The manuscript we provide tackles this case through a small country ‘in-between’ the core global actors of economic and political concern: Timor-Leste as a ground for grasping large-scale complexities in decision-making processes, as much as the micro-understanding and dynamics of a small country ‘within the game’ – if not even on the forefront.


English

9789004522916 9789004522923

10.1163/9789004522923 DOI


Free trade.
International economic integration.
Regionalism.

DS501

337.159