The Australia-ASEAN Dialogue / Asia Today (PDF)

Lina Gong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Baogang He, Deakin University, Australia
Sofiah Jamil, Australian National University
Michael Leach, Swinburne University, Australia
Imran Lum, National Australia Bank's Product and Markets Division
Anthony Milner, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia
Amy Nethery, Deakin University, Australia
Math Noortmann, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Claudine Ogilvie, Ridley Corporation
Jiro Okamoto, Australian National University
Sally Percival Wood, Deakin University, Australia
Avery Poole, University of Melbourne, Australia
See Seng Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Anthony Welch, University of Sydney, Australia

'While ASEAN has held a range of dialogues with major and middle powers over the years, its partnership with Australia has gone from strength to strength, and has become an enduring and maturing axis that transcends geography for Australia and offers middle-power leveraging for ASEAN, while harmonizing and promoting mutual interests on both sides. This edited book weaves a persuasive tapestry of mutual discovery between Australia and ASEAN from their modest and uncertain origins four decades ago to current challenges and opportunities going forward. Its authors have provided instructive lenses to see how the Australia-ASEAN relationship has become so compelling and mutually indispensable.' - Thithinan Pongsudhirak, Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

"Australia's long-standing relationship with ASEAN as a formal grouping is all too often overlooked in the secondary literature. Yet, the breadth and depth of cooperation has been striking and sustained, including in areas as diverse as counter-terrorism, higher education, finance, nuclear energy, and food security. The collection of essays in this book provides an excellent overview of how the relationship has changed since Australia became ASEAN's first dialogue partner in 1974. The editors are to be commended for organizing such a splendid book, which I'm sure will quickly become one of the outstanding references for Australia's relationship with Southeast Asia.' - Andrew O'Neil, Professor of Political Science and Head of the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia

'Australia's relations with the Southeast Asian region have undergone a fundamental transformation in the last half century in tandem with the emergence of the region from being a cockpit of instability and turmoil to one of peace, stability, and dynamic economic growth. Instead of viewing the region through the narrow prism