Managing Great Power Politics

ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea

Kei Koga (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-19-2613-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Kei Koga is Assistant Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research focuses on International Security, International Institutions, and East Asian/Indo-Pacific security.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Global Political Transitions
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 284 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	981-19-2613-1 / 9811926131
ISBN-13	978-981-19-2613-6 / 9789811926136
Zustand	Neuware