Southeast Asia as a Region
- "Southeast Asia": What's in a Name?(JSTOR) Article by Donald K. Emmerson, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies vol.15 no.1, March 1984.
"Is "Southeast Asia" a reality existing independently of its name, projecting homogeneity, unity and boundedness (or) a part of the world that is heterogenous, disunited and hard to delimit?" - The Integrity of Southeast Asian History(JSTOR) article by D.G.E. Hall, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol.4 no.2, Sept. 1973.
"At the end of a Cornell Seminar a student remarked he had difficulty studying "Southeast Asia" as it had so many different countries. I agreed but commented that if you took indigenes from each country and dressed them exactly alike it would be almost impossible to identify their country of origin." - In Defence of Southeast Asia: A Case for Methodological RegionalismIn TRaNS: Trans –Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia Vol. 1, No. 2 (July) 2013:
The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region by Call Number: DS525.8 .A25 2013Publication Date: 2013 (Ithaca : Cornell University Press)See the Introduction, "Region, Regionalism and Regional Identity in the Making of Southeast Asia"
History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives by Call Number: DS523.2 .W86 1999 +Publication Date: 1999 (Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University in cooperation with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, )New, revised ed. of the classic study, this book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.
The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia by Call Number: DS526.7 .A264 2000Publication Date: 2001 (Oxford ; Oxford University Press)"The differences between the Islamic, Buddhist, Christian and Confucian traditions of different countries of the region, their very distinct language families, colonial experiences and Cold War alignments, appeared to vitiate any common identity beyond geographic propinquity." The author discusses the history of ASEAN and how "the governments of Southeast Asia themselves became chief advocates of the idea of a common regional destiny ."
- The Wheres and Whys of Southeast Asia: Art and Performance in the Locating of Southeast Asia Today"This chapter [in book Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary] examines the concept of ‘Southeast Asia’ while drawing attention to the intersections and interactions of the region to broader Asia brought about by the flows of maritime trade that plied the ocean. More significantly, the chapter interrogates the limits of historiography and posits how art and performance, as alternative ways of knowing, retain the capacities to disrupt and challenged settled assumptions of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian identities."
The Belt and Road Initiative: ASEAN Countries' Perspectives by Call Number: HG5740.8.A3 B45 2019Publication Date: 2019 (Singapore ; New Jersey, NJ : World Scientific)Strengths and weaknesses of ASEAN countries; opportunities and challenges of the BRI; impacts of the BRI on building the ASEAN community; interactions between BRi and ASEAN-China cooperation.