Enhancing Intercity Relation among Secondary Cities in ASEAN

Baiq Wardhani, Vinsensio Dugis

2018

Abstract

This paper investigates the possible important roles of secondary cities in ASEAN to becoming pillars of connectivity for ASEAN Community, the roles of which so far seems to have been still understudied. Our arguments are based on three reasons. First, cities plays significant role in diplomacy since capital cities can no longer to be sole players in world stage. Although at the beginning of the twenty-first century, foreign affairs is still primarily a task of national governments and their ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs), the state is no longer the only actor on the diplomatic stage. The foundations of diplomacy as such were established long before 1648, when states did not yet exist and cities pioneered as foreign policy entities. Second, diplomacy thus existed before the existence of states, but ASEAN has so far relied heavily in states (capital city) to support inter-ASEAN relations and to forget that cities are oldest diplomatic actors. At a time when ASEAN is gearing up for stronger integration, there is a need to enhance interaction among its peoples to facilitate the vision of a solid regional community by 2020. One way to achieve it is through enhancing the role of non-capital cities. Third, deepening ASEAN integration can be garnered through strengthening the role of ASEAN’s cities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wardhani B. and Dugis V. (2018). Enhancing Intercity Relation among Secondary Cities in ASEAN. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 397-403. DOI: 10.5220/0010277800002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Baiq Wardhani and Vinsensio Dugis},
title={Enhancing Intercity Relation among Secondary Cities in ASEAN},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={397-403},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010277800002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Enhancing Intercity Relation among Secondary Cities in ASEAN
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Wardhani B.
AU - Dugis V.
PY - 2018
SP - 397
EP - 403
DO - 10.5220/0010277800002309