Congratulations to our Scientific Director Stéphanie Martel for being chosen for the 2023 CPSA Prize in International Relations short-list with her book:

Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN's Never-ending Story

 

In unpacking the process of talking and arguing about security, Martel demonstrates the crucial roles discourse plays in forging ASEAN’s aspirational security community and in crafting the ends and boundaries of security governance in the region. Martel shows how taking ASEAN seriously informs broader debates in multilateral governance, comparative regionalism, and global order, redressing a broader neglect of transformative processes of community building in the Global South. Through case chapters grounded in impressive fieldwork and interviews, she examines a range of traditional and non-traditional security concerns that shed light on a regional grouping central to multilateral security governance in the Asia-Pacific amidst growing Sino-American tensions.