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Record Nr.

UNINA9910588787403321

Autore

Koga Kei

Titolo

Managing Great Power Politics : ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea / / by Kei Koga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

981-19-2611-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages)

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Regionalism

Asia - Politics and government

International organization

Diplomacy

Security, International

Asian Politics

International Organization

International Security Studies

Southeast Asia Strategic aspects

Southeast Asia Foreign relations

South China Sea International status

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.