Asean’s Evolving Institutional Strategy
Managing Great Power Politics in South China Sea Disputes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12907243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kei Koga (0000-0002-0373-3088, Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-80 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Chinese Journal of International Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8916 • E-ISSN: 1750-8924 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cjip/pox016 |
| OpenAlex | W2791494723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
This article argues that a change in institutional strategy enables The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to manage its great power relations and prevent their abrupt political intrusion into the region by providing the policy options of pursuing institutional balancing, bandwagoning, hedging, or co-option. ASEAN’s strategy is not only to choose optimal policy under a changing security environment, but also to create an institutional division of labour by proliferating ASEAN-led institutions to ensure, as far as possible, regional autonomy and Member States’ security. Changes in ASEAN’s institutional strategy occur when its Member States expect a change in the regional distribution of power. However, due to constraints created by the existing institutional design it is difficult to make any drastic alteration to the institutional strategy unless a radical change in the regional power configuration occurs. This article examines the cases of East Asia Summit and ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM)/ADMM-Plus during the period 2005–2016, the comparison of which illuminates the causes and processes of their strategy change and helps to deepen our understanding of the roles of regional security institutions
Autonomy · Business · China · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Great power · Institutional change · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Regional organization · Summit · Global trade and economics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
The Courteous Power
The State of the Discipline
Reframing China and Japan’s strategic partnerships with Asean
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ narratives of non-compliance with norms
Meanings, norms, and social constitution
The Asean way and the changing security environment
Explaining China’s Lancang-Mekong cooperation as an institutional balancing strategy
Institutional strategies in regional role location process
Networks of order in East Asia
The disturbance and endurance of norms in Asean
What causes changes in international governance details
Making sense of Thailand’s agency in changing global and regional environments
Challenges to Asean centrality and hedging in connectivity governance—regional and national pressure points
China, the United States, and order transition in East Asia
Riding the tide
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |