Managing great power politics : ASEAN, institutional strategy, and the South China Sea / Kei Koga.
2022
DS518.14
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Title
Managing great power politics : ASEAN, institutional strategy, and the South China Sea / Kei Koga.
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ISBN
9789811926112 (electronic bk.)
9811926115 (electronic bk.)
9789811926105
9811926107
9811926115 (electronic bk.)
9789811926105
9811926107
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-2611-2 doi
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DS518.14
Dewey Decimal Classification
341.24/73
Summary
This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality, a different geopolitical scope, and thus a different institutional strategy. In so doing, ASEAN formed a “strategic institutional web” that nurtured a quasi-division of labor among the institutions to maintain relative stability in the South China Sea. Unlike the conventional analysis on ASEAN, this study disaggregates “ASEAN” as a collective regional actor into specific individual institutions—ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Summit, ASEAN-China dialogues, ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit, and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus—and explains how each of these institutions has devised and/or shifted its institutional strategy to curb great powers’ ambition in dominating the South China Sea while navigating great power competition. The book sheds light on the strategic potential and limitations of ASEAN and ASEAN-led security institutions, offers implications for the future role of ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides an alternative understanding of the strategic utilities of regional security institutions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 9, 2022).
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Global political transitions. 2522-8749
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction-ASEAN’s Strategic Utility Redefined
Chapter 2: The Concept of Institutional Strategy and Change
Chapter 3: Four Phases of South China Sea Disputes 1990–2020
Chapter 4: Institutional Strategies of ASEAN/ASEAN-led Institutions
Chapter 5: Conclusion-Future Implications of ASEAN’s Institutional Strategies.
Chapter 2: The Concept of Institutional Strategy and Change
Chapter 3: Four Phases of South China Sea Disputes 1990–2020
Chapter 4: Institutional Strategies of ASEAN/ASEAN-led Institutions
Chapter 5: Conclusion-Future Implications of ASEAN’s Institutional Strategies.