ASEAN in the Making: Centralities and Peripheries / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner -- Timor-Leste’s Membership of ASEAN: The Political Process and Its Discontents / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner -- ASEAN and Timor-Leste: An Analysis of Decision-Making Dynamics / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner -- Is There an Endless Search for New (Overseas) Younger Brother(s)? Timor-Leste and Its Ecumenic Ambitions / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner -- ASEAN and Timor-Leste: A Discourse on Centrality, Sociopolitical Negotiations and Relationships / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner -- Neighbors and Kin: ASEAN as an Ecumene? Reality Constructions from a Timorese Perspective / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner -- Disputing Centralities amidst Covid-19: The Triangular Relationship of ASEAN, China and Timor-Leste / Paulo Castro Seixas, Nuno Canas Mendes, Nadine Lobner and -- Kaian Lam -- Postscript: Timor-Leste ASEAN Membership : Rethinking the Debate / Ariel Mota Alves.
"ASEAN, as being on the very core of this matter, deserves close attention through the case of Timor-Leste for understanding international strategic inclusion-exclusion dynamics. The manuscript we provide tackles this case through a small country ’in-between’ the core global actors of economic and political concern: Timor-Leste as a ground for grasping large-scale complexities in decision-making processes, as much as the micro-understanding and dynamics of a small country ’within the game’ - if not even on the forefront"-- Provided by publisher..