TY - BOOK ID - 101666356 TI - Managing Great Power Politics : ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea PY - 2022 SN - 9811926115 9811926107 PB - Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - International relations KW - Politics & government KW - International institutions KW - Diplomacy KW - ASEAN KW - Institutional Strategy in Southeast Asia KW - Rise of China KW - Balance of Power in Southeast Asia KW - Secondary Power in Southeast Asia KW - Great Power Politics in Southeast Asia KW - East Asia KW - Power Shift in Asia KW - Regional Security Institution KW - South China Sea KW - ASEAN Regional Forum KW - ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting KW - ADMM-Plus KW - ASEAN+3 KW - East Asia Summit KW - ASEAN Ministerial Meeting KW - ASEAN Summit KW - Regionalism. KW - Asia KW - International organization. KW - Diplomacy. KW - Security, International. KW - Asian Politics. KW - International Organization. KW - International Security Studies. KW - Politics and government. KW - Collective security KW - International security KW - Disarmament KW - International organization KW - Peace KW - History KW - Federation, International KW - Global governance KW - Interdependence of nations KW - International administration KW - International federation KW - Organization, International KW - World federation KW - World government KW - World order KW - World organization KW - Congresses and conventions KW - Political science KW - International agencies KW - International cooperation KW - Security, International KW - World politics KW - Human geography KW - Nationalism KW - Interregionalism KW - Southeast Asia KW - Strategic aspects. KW - Foreign relations. KW - International status. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101666356 AB - This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality, a different geopolitical scope, and thus a different institutional strategy. In so doing, ASEAN formed a “strategic institutional web” that nurtured a quasi-division of labor among the institutions to maintain relative stability in the South China Sea. Unlike the conventional analysis on ASEAN, this study disaggregates “ASEAN” as a collective regional actor into specific individual institutions—ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Summit, ASEAN-China dialogues, ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit, and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus—and explains how each of these institutions has devised and/or shifted its institutional strategy to curb great powers’ ambition in dominating the South China Sea while navigating great power competition. The book sheds light on the strategic potential and limitations of ASEAN and ASEAN-led security institutions, offers implications for the future role of ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides an alternative understanding of the strategic utilities of regional security institutions. ER -