The Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia

Towards an Ethical Explanation

Tan, See Seng, See Seng Tan

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781529200720
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529200768
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Despite the long-held and jealously guarded ASEAN principle of non-intervention, this book argues that states in Southeast Asia have begun to display an increasing readiness to think about sovereignty in terms not only of state responsibility to their own populations but also towards neighbouring countries as well. Taking account of the realities of interstate cooperation in the region, and drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, the author develops a new theoretical framework reflecting an evolution of attitudes about state sovereignty to explain this emerging ethic of regional responsibility.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Towards an Ethos of Responsibility in Southeast Asia
• 2 The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Responses from Southeast Asia
• 3 Towards a ‘Responsibility to Provide’ (R2Provide) in Southeast Asia
• 4 Institutionalizing Security Regionalism: Responsibility as ‘Response Ability’
• 5 Responsible Provision in HADR, Conflict Management and Human Rights
• 6 Towards the Responsible Management of Disputes in Southeast Asia
• 7 Communitarianism, Liberalism and the Limits of Responsibility in Southeast Asia
• 8 Levinas and the Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia
• 9 The Responsibility to Provide: Implications for the Region and Beyond
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index