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This book looks at major contemporary conflicts -intra and interstate- in Southeast Asia from a conflict management perspective. Starting with the view that the conventional ASEAN conflict-management methods have ceased to be effective, it looks for new conflict-management patterns and trends by investigating seven contemporary cases of conflict in the region. Focusing on the incompatibilities involved in each case and examining how they have been managed-whether by integration, co-existence, elimination or maneuvering around the conflict-the book sheds new light on the significance of managing conflict in achieving and maintaining the stability of the Southeast Asian region. It makes a significant theoretical contribution to the field of peace and conflict studies by proposing the concept of "mediation regime" as the key to understanding current conflict management within ASEAN.

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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

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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).

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