... pattern and dynamics of Northeast Asian regionalism Mark Beeson, Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 Alan Dupont has claimed that the ARF had sown the seeds ... Burma and other parts of Asia that it cannot handle” 22 The ARF consists of a total of 27 states, including the ASEAN states and the major powers, US, Russia, China, and Japan How the non -ASEAN ... importance of extending the ASEAN Way’ to promoting and shaping the Northeast Asian regional order Writing in 1997, Amitav Acharya noted that the ASEAN elites saw the extension of the ASEAN Way to the...