The key question is whether ASEAN can make a constructive and meaningful contribution to resolving its own internal divisions, let alone to influencing the behavior of China and the United States. Such outcomes may be unlikely but not impossible if the ASEAN states can develop a coherent, continuing, and collective response to the challenges they face.
Mark Beeson Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2022, ksab044, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab044 Published: 21 January 2022 Article history
- Abstract
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) currently faces a series of major, historically unprecedented, challenges. Perhaps the most consequential of these new threats is the intensifying strategic, economic, and even institutional competition between the United States and China. ASEAN’s rather predictable response to this geopolitical contest has been to “hedge” and avoid choosing between the two great powers. While this strategy may be understandable, it threatens to undermine ASEAN’s much vaunted “centrality” and the geopolitical and diplomatic relevance of the organization as a whole. This article explores the background to these developments and Southeast Asia’s relationship with both the United States and China. I argue that the limited impact of ASEAN-style multilateralism helps to explain why great powers are creating alternative forums or simply paying lip service to the notion of ASEAN centrality. Tiếp tục đọc “Decentered? ASEAN’s Struggle to Accommodate Great Power Competition “
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