Regionalism and Southeast Asia

This course examines the global growth in regional governance, moving away from Eurocentricism in both history and concept to examine the case of Southeast Asia. The course investigates first why states are interested in regional governance, the different forms of regionalism that can come about and how we can think about what success and failure of regionalism looks like. From there it turns to the study of ASEAN in Southeast Asia, examining the reasons for its creation, how it has grown over time and how this growth can be understood theoretically. Each week pairs together conceptual arguments about how and why something happens with the empirical case of Southeast Asia, exemplifying the importance of the region for both applying and building our frameworks of analysis.