ASEAN

SDSC scholars on managing the great powers in Southeast Asia

A collection of papers and contributors in a Special Forum, recently published in the Asan Forum, examines recent thinking in Australia and three states in ASEAN—Indonesia, Vietnam, and Myanmar. The coverage reaches beyond their attitudes to the Sino-US struggle over sovereignty and freedom of navigation to broader questions of foreign policy, emphasizing how domestic leadership is impacting strategic choices as the regional security situation grows more dangerous.

US–China rivalry: does Asia have to choose?

Can America preserve the US-led regional order by resisting China’s challenge to replace it with ‘a new model of great-power relations’?

Indonesia's ‘Great Power’ Aspirations: A Critical View

Indonesia is readying itself for a return to a diplomatic assertiveness not seen since the early 1960s.

Assessing Indonesia's Normative Influence: Wishful Thinking or Hidden Strength

Mathew Davies and Susan Harris-Rimmer, 'Assessing Indonesia's Normative Influence: Wishful Thinking or Hidden Strength', Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 3(1) 2016: 80-8.

Realising Rights: How Regional Organisations Socialise Human Rights

This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that

The ASEAN Regional Forum. A Model for Cooperative Security in the Middle East?

An examination of the particular circumstances which permitted the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and its subsequent record, suggest that i

ASEAN and the Southeast Asian 'Haze': Challenging the Prevailing Modes of Regional Engagement

Southeast Asia’s serious ‘haze’ crisis of 1997â-98 was a result of forestry and land practices in Indonesia not conforming to state regulations regarding cont

From Paternalism to Partnership: Australia's Relations with ASEAN

In the thirty years since the creation of ASEAN, the relations between Southeast Asia and Australia have changed dramatically.

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