Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Mikio Oishi has been involved in research and publication on Peace and Conflict in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to the new ASEAN Way of conflict management, his current research interests include: managing territorial disputes in East Asia; the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as a conflict management regime; and the Pax Sinica (peace by China). Among his recent publications are: International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge 2010, with Jacob Bercovitch) and Managing Conflict in Economic Development (LAP 2011).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The ASEAN Way of Conflict Management under Challenge.- Chapter 2: Ending a Long-Standing Intrastate Conflict through Internationalisation: The Case of Aceh in Indonesia.- Chapter 3: Not the “ASEAN Way”: The Southern Philippines Conflict and its Internationalization.- Chapter 4: Spiralling Insurgency in the Deep South: Thailand’s Unseen Road to Ethnic Conflict Management.- Chapter 5: Developing a Way to Influence the Conduct of the Government in Intrastate Conflict: The Case of Myanmar.- Chapter 6: The Thailand-Cambodia Preah Vihear Temple Dispute: Its Past, Present and Future.- Chapter 7: Circumventing Conflict: The Indonesia-Malaysia Ambalat Block Dispute.- Chapter 8: The South China Sea Dispute: Formation of a Mediation Regime and Challenges for Management.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Is a New ASEAN Way of Conflict Management Emerging?.- Index