Mapping ASEAN: Achieving Peace, Prosperity, and Sustainability in Southeast Asia
Author : David L. Carden (Former United States Ambassador to ASEAN)
Publisher : Indiana University Press, 2019
ISBN : 9780253045768
Call Number : 337.159 CAR
Summary :
For half a century, ten dynamic nations in Southeast Asia have been implementing a shared vision of economic growth, sustainable development, and cultural progress. Today, the economies of those nations are linked inextricably with the United States as well as with the other Western countries. With authoritarianism and protectionism on the rise around the world and the catastrophic effects of global warming taking action urgent, the nations that form the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are more relevant and under greater political and social stress than ever.
In these illuminating pages, David L. Carden, the first American resident ambassador to ASEAN, paints a vivid portrait of the regional and global cooperation required today and in an interconnected future. Carden takes us behind the scenes as the leaders of these ten nations work to prepare their countries and their region for the 21st century. Carden persuasively argues that the unfolding story of ASEAN is a story for the entire world—that we are all increasingly interdependent and confronted with the existential need to solve the same set of challenges.