The year 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the informal dialogue relations between ASEAN and Japan. The relationship between the two remains strong, but a number of developments in the region over the past decade have made it necessary to reexamine and redefine the strategic value of ASEAN-Japan cooperation. This report, based on the first year of a study that draws on the combined insights of dozens of the region’s brightest thinkers, offers recommendations for such cooperation with a particular eye toward how it can contribute to further integration among ASEAN countries, particularly in the economic, political and security, and socio-cultural realms.
This book was the result of a project on ASEAN–Japan Strategic Partnership and Regional Community Building.
Contents
Preface
Summary of Study Group Findings
ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership in Southeast Asia: Economic Pillar
Siew Yean Tham and Fukunari Kimura
ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership in Southeast Asia: Political-Security Pillar
Rizal Sukma and Yoshihide Soeya
ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership in Southeast Asia: Socio-cultural Pillar
Carolina G. Hernandez and Motoko Shuto
Background Papers
Study Group on ASEAN Economic Community
Financial Cooperation in ASEAN
Pratiwi Kartika
Sustainable Development: Food Security and Social Safety Nets in the CLMV Countries
Vo Tri Thanh
Human Resources, Innovation, and Harmonization of Standards
Chayodom Sabhasri
ASEAN-Japan Cooperation on ASEAN’s Development Gap and Connectivity: Working Together with Regional and Subregional Initiatives
Sanchita Basu Das
Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in the ASEAN Economies
Yuri Sato
Study Group on ASEAN Political-Security Community
ASEAN-Japan Cooperation in ASEAN Community Building: The Nontraditional Security Dimension
Herman Joseph S. Kraft
ASEAN-Japan Defense Cooperation: Overcoming History and Charting New Possibilities
Tang Siew Mun
ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership in Southeast Asia: Maritime Security and Cooperation
Nguyen Hung Son
Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, and Preventive Diplomacy
Simon S.C. Tay and Aaron Choo
ASEAN-Japan Cooperation on Democracy and Human Rights Promotion: Challenges and Opportunities
Takeshi Yuzawa
Study Group on ASEAN Socio-cultural Community
Protecting Vulnerable People, Building ASEAN Identity, and Narrowing the Development Gap
Amara Pongsapich
Migrant Workers in a People-Centered ASEAN Community and ASEAN-Japan Cooperation
Vannarith Chheang
Disaster Management and Humanitarian Action in Southeast Asia: Opportunities for an ASEAN-Japan Coordinated Approach
Moe Thuzar
ASEAN-Japan Cooperation for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Synergizing Regional Efforts for Human-Centered Development
Risako Ishii
