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@article{ Jönsson2010, title = {Unity-in-diversity? Regional identity-building in Southeast Asia}, author = {Jönsson, Kristina}, journal = {Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs}, number = {2}, pages = {41-72}, volume = {29}, year = {2010}, issn = {1868-4882}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-2617}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of regional integration and regional identity-building in Southeast Asia. The idea is to problematise the quest for a regional identity by relating the efforts of integration to the issues of multi-ethnicity, national identity-building and multicultural societies in times of globalisation. The article consists of three broad themes intending to capture the complexity of regional identity-building: regionalism and regional cooperation; tensions by diversity; and dilemmas of regional identity-building in multi-ethnic societies illustrated by Laos and Burma/ Myanmar. This analysis is explorative in character and attempts to combine different bodies of literature in order to better understand some of the contradictory processes related to regional identity-building in Southeast Asia. A tentative conclusion is that without an accommodating, inclusive and pluralistic society, the creation of a common regional identity will remain an elitist political project.}, keywords = {multicultural society; Myanmar; Identitätsbildung; Gesellschaft; Myanmar; ethnischer Konflikt; society; Globalisierung; ASEAN; Kooperation; Southeast Asia; complexity; pluralism; regionale Integration; Laos; Südostasien; identity formation; Komplexität; ASEAN; regionalism; regional integration; Laos; regional identity; globalization; ethnic relations; multikulturelle Gesellschaft; regionale Identität; nationale Identität; ethnic conflict; cooperation; Regionalismus; national identity; Pluralismus; ethnische Beziehungen}}