East Asia's Regional Order and ASEAN's Challenges

我们研究项目的10名成员都坚信，东盟对于东南亚和亚太地区的和平、稳定和发展是不可或缺的。另一方面，我们也知道，如果东盟不能适应不断变化的地区和国际环境，它将变得无关紧要和被边缘化。以这些理解为基本框架，我们试图从政治安全、经济和国际关系理论等不同角度分析东盟的表现和缺陷。因此，在我们项目的两个财政年度内，我们取得了以下成果：1.2005年8月，Akashi Shuppani出版了一本名为《亚洲地区秩序和东盟的挑战》的书，名为《亚洲地区秩序和东盟的挑战》；2.2005年11月，在大藤文卡大学举办了“东盟-从东盟经验到东亚共同体”专题讨论会。大约200名学生和研究人员参加了会议；提交给文部科学省的《东亚地区秩序和东盟的挑战》的最终报告。(最后报告的英文修订版正在准备出版，可能来自新加坡的一家机构)

The ten members of our research project share the conviction that ASEAN is indispensable for the peace, stability, and development of Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific as well. On the other hand, we also know that ASEAN would become irrelevant and marginalized if it will fail to adapt itself to the changing regional and international environments.With those understandings as our basic framework, we have tried to analyze ASEAN's performance as well as flaws from respective viewpoints-such as politico-security, economic, and international relations theory.Thus, within two fiscal years of our project, we have produced the following results :1. A Publication of a Book on 'Ajia Chiiki-chitsujo to ASEAN no Chosen' [Asian Regional Order and ASEAN's Challenges] in August 2005 from Akashi Shuppan ;2. A Symposium on 'ASEAN Taiken kara Higashi-Ajia Kyoudoutai E' [From ASEAN Experiences to An East Asia Community] in November 2005 at Daito Bunka University. Approximately 200 students and researchers attended ; and3. A Final Report 'East Asia's Regional Order and ASEAN's Challenges' to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. (A revised English version of the final report is under preparation for publication possibly from an Institution in Singapore )