Author: Kelly Gerard, UWA

The first of two ASEAN Civil Society Conferences to be held under Cambodia’s chairmanship took place in late March, alongside the first ASEAN Summit for 2012.

The Cambodian government’s intervention in this event set a new benchmark for measures employed by ASEAN governments to oust civil society participation from official discussions. Read more…

Author: Kelly Gerard, University of Western Australia

The issues keeping policy makers awake at night increasingly demand concerted regional responses. Ideas, funds, people and services move rapidly across porous borders, and so do security threats. Financial crises, drug smuggling, people trafficking, climate change, and terrorist networks are just a small sample of security threats currently spreading across states’ boundaries.

Faced with this newly globalised environment, states have recognised a need for international cooperation; regionalism has been on the rise since the late-1980s. Read more…