ABSTRACT

Emmers questions the dichotomy implicit in this interpretation and investigates what role the balance of power really plays in such cooperative security arrangements and in the calculations of the participants of ASEAN and the ARF. He offers a thorough analysis of the influence the balance of power has had on the formation and evolution of the ASEAN and ARF and reveals the co-existence and inter-relationship between both approaches within the two institutions.

The book contains case studies of Brunei's motives in joining the ASEAN in 1984; ASEAN's response to the Third Indochina Conflict; the workings of the ARF since 1994 and ASEAN's involvement in the South China Sea dispute. It will interest students and researchers of the ASEAN and ARF, the international politics of Southeast Asia, Regionalism and the Balance of Power theory.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter |30 pages

Regimes for cooperative security

The formation and institutional evolution of ASEAN and the ARF

chapter |24 pages

The balance of power factor and the denial of intra-mural hegemony

ASEAN's early years and its enlargement to include Brunei in 1984

chapter |25 pages

The balance of power and extra-mural hegemony

ASEAN's response to the Third Indochina Conflict

chapter |18 pages

The post-Cold War regional security context

The role of the balance of power factor within the ARF

chapter |25 pages

ASEAN's post-Cold War involvement in the South China Sea dispute

The relevance of associative and balance of power dimensions