Multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region : prospects and possibilities
Ball, Desmond1999
Book
Total copies: 2
Main title:
Imprint:
Singapore : Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 1999.
Collation:
35 leaves ; 30 cm.
Series title:
IDSS working paper ; no. 2
Notes:
RSIS Publications are originally published in RSIS website: https://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/rsis-publications/
Contents:
This paper seeks to (i) describe the achievements with respect to the institutionalisation of multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific since 1992; (ii) provide a critical assessment of this progress; (iii) consider some of the principal problems affecting the process; (iv) provide some net assessment of the achievements to date and what this suggests for the future; and (v) outline an agenda for action. It acknowledges the extraordinary progress of the institutionalisation of multilateral security cooperation between 1992-97 but it also sees this process as losing momentum by 1997. Establishing mechanisms for dialogue and institutionalising a region-wide confidence-building process were fundamentally important achievements of the first five-year period, but they were relatively easy undertakings when compared to more substantive activities such as preventive diplomacy, conflict resolution or arms control.
LC class:
UA830 BAL
Language:
English
BRN:
47867