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%T Unity-in-diversity? Regional identity-building in Southeast Asia %A Jönsson, Kristina %J Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs %N 2 %P 41-72 %V 29 %D 2010 %K Political Science; Southeast Asia; Burma/ Myanmar; regionalism; regional integration; identity-building; 2000-2010 %@ 1868-4882 %= 2011-05-25T15:25:00Z %~ GIGA %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-2617 %U http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/261 %X 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. %C DEU %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info