Collaboration under Anarchy

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Collaboration
under Anarchy
Functional Regionalism and the
Security of East Asia
RSIS Monograph No. 15
Edited by
See Seng Tan

RSIS MONOGRAPH NO. 15
Collaboration under
anarChy
FunCtional regionalism and
the seCurity oF east asia
edited by
See Seng Tan
report oF the study group For
the sentosa roundtable on asian seCurity
2009
Multilateralism & Regionalism Programme
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
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Collaboration under anarchy
Functional Regionalism and the Security of East Asia
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On 1 January 2007, the S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies (RSIS) was inaugurated at Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. It was originally
established as the Institute of Defence and Strategic
Studies (IDSS) on 30 July 1996. The IDSS remains as
a key component within the RSIS, focusing on security
research, while the School takes over its teaching
functions. The RSIS will:
a. Provide a rigorous professional graduate
education with a strong practical emphasis,

b. Conduct policy-relevant research in defence,
national security, international relations,
international political economy, strategic
studies and diplomacy, and

c. Build a global network of like-minded
professional schools.
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Contents
preface vii
abbreviations and acronyms ix
introduction: Functionalizing regional Cooperation 1
in east asia: Challenges and prospects
See Seng Tan
Part I – SPecIfIc ISSueS
1 is depoliticized Functional Cooperation the Key to 11
advancing Cooperation in east asia? lessons from
east asian Financial Cooperation
Helen E. S. Nesadurai
2 the problems and prospects of an integrated 26
regional energy market
Youngho Chang
3 non-traditional security Challenges in east asia: 35
pushing the limits of Functional Cooperation in
east asia
Mely Caballero-Anthony
4 Functional Cooperation against human and 49
drug trafficking in east asia
Ralf Emmers
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Part II – country PerSPectIveS
5 Visions and realities: asean’s efforts to 63
institutionalize Cooperation
Avery Poole
6 China and Functional Cooperation in east asia: 76
possibilities and limitations
Li Mingjiang
7 Japan and east asian regional Cooperation 90
Bhubhindar Singh
8 india’s perspective on regionalism in asia 103
Kripa Sridharan
9 the Case for an informal approach: 120
an australian perspective
Robert Ayson and Brendan Taylor
Contributors 132
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preFaCe
n the debate on East Asia’s efforts to enhance regional coop-
I
eration and build the long anticipated East Asian Community,
what is often missed or glossed over is the embryonic functional
regionalism that is fast developing in the region. Notwithstanding
the contention—not incorrect, in many respects—that East Asian
regionalism is more about “process” rather than “progress”,1 a
deeper examination of regional cooperative efforts in issue-specific
or interest-based areas suggests there is progress as well as proc-
ess. Uneven, qualified and fraught with constraints and cautionary
notes of all kinds, it has to be said that it is progress nonetheless.
Crucially, cooperative efforts have emerged in response to crisis;
take, for example, the recent move by the ASEAN+3 to finally
multilateralize financial collaboration in response to worldwide
economic recession even though similar ideas had previously
been mooted (and rejected) following the 1997 Asian financial
meltdown.
At the same time, it is fair to say that no bold initiatives of the
sort just described could have been conceivable much less possible
without the requisite frameworks and processes, no matter how
rudimentary, already in place. In this sense, East Asia’s developing
functional regionalism has played and continues to play a part in
laying the groundwork and, to an extent, ground rules for more
ambitious collaboration. Indeed, functional cooperation may well
constitute a key building block, in East Asia, for the type of rules-
based or hard regionalism that characterizes more advanced forms
of regional community such as the European Union. Needless to
say, that prospect remains at best ambiguous. Nor is it apparent,
not yet at least, whether East Asia’s road to community formation
will be similar to that traversed by Europe or unlike any other. But
this much is clear: No regional integration and community in East
Asia will likely be possible without a functional regionalism that
is robust and vibrant.
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This monograph is the culmination of the efforts of the Study
Group in support of The Sentosa Roundtable on Asian Security
2009, an annual dialogue hosted by the S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies. The authors gratefully acknowledge the gen-
erous support and partnership of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation
for the Sentosa Roundtable and related activities, which has made
possible the work of this Study Group and its predecessors.
See Seng Tan
Editor
1. David Martin Jones and Michael L.R. Smith. “Making Process, Not
Progress: ASEAN and the Evolving East Asian Regional Order.”
International Security, Vol. 32, No. 1, (2007) pp. 148–184.
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