During The Cold War, Asean In The Asia-pacific Regional Cooperation. Status And Role

After the Cold War,the Asia-Pacific regional cooperation shows the unique characteristics different from those of other regions in the world.Among them is the most important one that ASEAN made up of small and medium-sized countries enjoys an especially important status and plays a particularly important role in Asia-pacific regional cooperation.Based on cases analyses,the dissertation mainly studies ASEAN's status and role in political,economic and security cooperation in Asia-Pacific region.By analyzing ASEAN's status and role in East Asia Summit cooperation mechanism,the dissertation puts out that ASEAN has a dominant position and plays a leading role in political cooperation in Asia-Pacific region.By analyzing ASEAN's status and role in the APEC cooperation mechanism,the dissertation proposes that ASEAN has a unique position and plays a unique role in economic cooperation in Asia-Pacific region.By analyzing ASEAN's status and role in ASEAN Regional Forum cooperation mechanism,the dissertation finds that ASEAN seizes dominance, has a dominant position and plays a leading role in the security cooperation in Asia-Pacific region.This dissertation attempts to study how the political,economic and security cooperation mechanisms are established in Asia-Pacific region,how the nature of cooperation mechanisms is positioned,and how the content,process,ways, and objectives in cooperation are selected and determined.All the attempts help us to argue that ASEAN has a dominant position or a unique position and plays a leading role or a unique role in political,economic and security cooperation in Asia-Pacific region.This dissertation holds that,after the cold war,ASEAN achieves a dominant position or a unique position and plays a leading role or a unique role in the Asia-Pacific regional cooperation.This argument is based on the following causes: objectively,ASEAN is provided conditions and opportunities by the great changes in international politics,economy,and security situation in Asia-Pacific region,the transition of international pattern and the reconstruction of international order in this region,the changes in major countries' policies for regional cooperation in this region, and the contradictions and differences of big powers;subjectively,ASEAN's success is dependent on its own pursuit,its balanced strategy between powers,its good relations with powers in this region and its experiences in regional cooperation.In the study,this dissertation used theories and perspectives of regional cooperation, refined from Game Theory,Realism,Neo-Realism,Neo-Liberalism and Constructivism,to give a theoretical analysis for ASEAN's status and role in Asia-Pacific regional cooperation.At the same time,the author constructs a new theoretical model for analysis:regional cooperation and game tactics—leading role and act capacity—normal,rule and behavior means.This paper believes that ASEAN is also faced with serious difficulties in the Asia-Pacific regional cooperation.Although ASEAN is taking measures to enhance the ASEAN's act capacity and behavior means in the regional cooperation in order to maintain ASEAN's achieved status and role,the dissertation believes if member countries of ASEAN can not correctly understand and properly handle the relationship between sovereignty transfer and regional cooperation,can not strengthen ASEAN authority,and can not improve ASEAN's international act capacity and behavior means,it is difficult for ASEAN to continue maintaining ASEAN's status and role which were achieved in the Asia-Pacific regional cooperation.