TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seixas,Paulo Castro
AU  - Mendes,Nuno Canas
AU  - Lobner,Nadine
TI  - The Paradox of ASEAN Centrality: Timor-Leste Betwixt and Between
T2  - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023
SN  - 9789004522916
AV  - DS501 
U1  - 337.159 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Free trade
KW  - International economic integration
KW  - Regionalism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004522923
ER  -