Abstract
During the Cold War, the Asian region consisted of three distinct subregions—Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia. Aside from the geographical constraints of the region itself, this subdivision of Asia was a product of culture, economics, history, and superpower rivalry. From one perspective, Asia remains too heterogeneous to permit the invocation of a distinct Asian identity. Southeast Asia is divided deeply along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. In Northeast Asia, the effects of Japanese colonialism and imperialism have left sharply diverging historical memories and interpretations. And conventional analysis has separated South Asia from its “East Asian” counterpart. Such divisions and heterogeneity have inhibited the emergence of a common Asian identity let alone broad-based, effective Asian institutions.2
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