Great Power Rivalries, Domestic Politics and Southeast Asian Foreign Policy
Exploring the Linkages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12742020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Marie Murphy (Murphy Oil Corporation (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 165-182 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-9855 • E-ISSN: 1555-2467 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14799855.2017.1354566 |
| OpenAlex | W2743747507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
Southeast Asian states increasingly face a strategic environment characterized by rising Sino-American tensions at the same time that domestic factors are increasingly influencing foreign policy. In recent decades, Southeast Asian states have sought to maintain their strategic autonomy by adopting hedging strategies to secure economic and security benefits from different partners. Since hedging is a rational response to strategic uncertainty, one would predict that as China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea has made clear its intentions to revise the status quo in ways that directly threaten the national interests of the Philippines Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia, that they would begin to balance against China, in part by improving ties with Washington. In contrast to these predictions, no Southeast Asian country is balancing against China today, partly because of the economic incentives offered by China and partly because of the disincentives created by US pressure on democracy and human rights. In the Philippines, Duterte’s strategic re-orientation away from the United States toward China was triggered partly by US condemnation of his bloody war on drugs while US criticism of Thailand’s military coup has weakened the alliance. The unprecedented role of public pressure, interest groups and legislatures is forcing Southeast Asian leaders to publically debate policy decisions long made in private. Public opinion in Southeast Asia has often been anti-American but anti-Chinese sentiment is rising. As domestic and foreign policy becomes increasingly intertwined, Southeast Asian foreign policy is likely to continue to deviate from structurally based alignment predictions and become more erratic
China · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Foreign policy · Incentive · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Status quo · Global trade and economics · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law
Getting hedging right
Hedging as Risk Management
Middle power hedging in the era of security/economic disconnect
The variable effectiveness of hedging strategies
The concept of hedging and its application to Southeast Asia
Hedging and grand strategy in Southeast Asian foreign policy
Shrinking room for hedging
Great power rivalry and the agency of secondary states
Hedging in international relations
Navigating great power competition
The United States, China, and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in East Asia
Analysing Nepal’s Foreign Policy
Continuity in Indonesia’s Strategy in the South China Sea Under Joko Widodo
L’architecture sécuritaire comme mécanisme d’influence des Etats-Unis en Asie du Sud-Est
South Korea’s leaders’ perceptions and the decision of hedging
China’s partners or US allies
The logic of the Marcos Jr. Government’s South China Sea Policy
The Philippine President’s Rhetoric on Japan-China Rivalry and Independent Foreign Policy
Seeking Strategic Autonomy through Regional Trade Agreements
Overconfidence, missteps, and tragedy
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism
Let sleeping bears lie
Nexus of Strong Presidentialism and Philippine Foreign Policy
Examining the Philippines’ China policy
Switching lanes? South Korea’s shifting hedging behavior in the U.S.–China rivalry
The limits of pressure
Myanmar’s struggle for survival
Making sense of Thailand’s agency in changing global and regional environments
Historical origins of Southeast Asian hedging
The U.S.-China narrative competition and reception dynamics in Southeast Asia
Beyond Paradigms
Sino–American Relations
India’s Indo-Pacific Policy
Ethnic leadership and the politics of legitimacy
Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game
Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of Covid-19
Southeast Asia under Great-Power Competition
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
Risk tolerance and domestic nationalism response demand
The ‘Lilliputian dilemma’ and Nepal’s Quest for strategic autonomy in Indo-Pacific
Not between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
How regional organisation survives
Sino‐Philippine Joint Development in the South China Sea
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
More than just hedging? The reactions of Cambodia and Vietnam to the power struggle between the United States and China in times of Obama's “pivot to Asia
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5.63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |