Author: Deepak Nair

Australia’s recent proposal for an Asia-Pacific Community (APC) is fostering some positive debate. By generating some ‘big picture’ thinking about Asia’s future, it also helps to reaffirm the importance of international institutions in solving security dilemmas.

The proposal also stresses to ASEAN elites that their current centrality to the process of ‘architecture-building’ is not beyond challenge. In many ways, the APC concept embodies regional cooperation with a new urgency. Read more…