| Description |
1 online resource (38 pages) |
| Series |
ASPI strategy |
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Strategy (Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
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| Contents |
Executive summary. -- ASEAN's past, present and future. -- The South China Sea disputes and ASEAN, US, Australian and Japanese reponses. -- PRC influence in Southeast Asia. -- Conclusion. -- References. -- Notes. -- Acronyms and abbreviations |
| Summary |
While individual states in this part of the world have been strategically significant in the past, Southeast Asia now finds itself thrust into the limelight of international affairs as a result of the competition currently occurring between the US and China. Those developments have placed greater strategic weight and heightened attendant stresses on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the principal group representing the 10 countries in the region. The most significant factor in ASEAN's failure to make concerted progress in the security field is its core principle of consensus-based decision-making. As a result of the association's significant growth in membership over the 1990s, reaching unanimous agreement on sensitive political issues has proven increasingly elusive. If ASEAN can't be relied upon to act as a forceful collective body to address threats and concerns associated with a more outwardly aggressive China--and in the absence of the emergence of a smaller network of like-minded, more activist states (of which there's currently no sign)--it's essential that the US, Australia and Japan (all of which share a deep interest in securing a stable and prosperous Southeast Asia) further develop and consolidate strategies that go beyond ASEAN for achieving their security and economic interests in the region |
| Notes |
"February 2017"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-38) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (ASPI, viewed March 7, 2017) |
| Subject |
ASEAN.
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| SUBJECT |
ASEAN. fast (OCoLC)fst00541528 |
| Subject |
International relations.
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Security, International.
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international relations.
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International relations.
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Security, International.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Long, Amelia, author
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781925229325 |
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1925229327 |
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