Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Regimes for cooperative security: the formation and institutional evolution of ASEAN and the ARF; The role of the balance of power factor within and beyond regimes for cooperative security; The balance of power factor and the denial of intra-mural hegemony: ASEAN's early years and its enlargement to include Brunei in 1984; The balance of power and extra-mural hegemony: ASEAN's response to the Third Indochina Conflict
The post-Cold War regional security context: the role of the balance of power factor within the ARFASEAN's post-Cold War involvement in the South China Sea dispute: the relevance of associative and balance of power dimensions; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary
In this book, Emmers addresses the key question: to what extent may the balance of power play a part in such cooperative security arrangements and in the calculations of the participants of ASEAN and the ART?
