Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181207
Title: Southeast Asia
Authors: Koga, Kei
Keywords: Social Sciences
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: Routledge
Source: Koga, K. (2024). Southeast Asia. B. C. H. Fong & J. I. Chong (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition (pp. 105-117). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181207
Abstract: This chapter explores how Southeast Asia has coped with various great power competitions since the end of World War II. Given Southeast Asia’s strategic location and the existence of natural resources, great powers (namely the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan) have been attracted to the region and played a significant role in shaping the regional strategic balance, which has created political and economic divergences within the region. However, Southeast Asian countries have also conducted skillful diplomacy to maintain regional stability and autonomy despite the strategic pressures deriving from great powers and intra-regional tensions. One of the most successful outcomes of such diplomacy is the establishment and development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The association was instituted in 1967, not only mitigating intra-member tensions during the Cold War but also becoming the core of regional multilateralism in the Asia–Pacific following this period, thus diffusing its institutional norms, the ASEAN Way, and ASEAN Centrality, so as to navigate the behavior of great powers. However, the current US–China strategic competition, diverging perspectives among ASEAN member states, and members’ domestic instability, particularly Myanmar, pose serious challenges to the existing utility of ASEAN and its member states’ foreign policy orientation.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181207
URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Great-Power-Competition/Fong-JaIan/p/book/9781032367910?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAxea5BhBeEiwAh4t5KxDEynnYqkyVVr7zI-uOTvK1RA2O_KeDPZY9u8OZz2MVYEnxHI8h4xoCvDUQAvD_BwE
ISBN: 9781003340997
Schools: School of Social Sciences 
Rights: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Routledge. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the copyright holder.
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