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SUMMARY:(R03) Southeast Asia caught between great power politics
LOCATION:K12 | 2.15
DESCRIPTION:Due to its geographic location as well as its geopolitical and 
 geo-economic importance, Southeast Asia plays a crucial role in the grand s
 trategies of the United States, China, Japan and India. China launched its 
 ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, both the United States an
 d Japan responded with their Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategies. 
 India upgraded its Look East to an Act East Policy. All four great powers e
 ndorse the regional centrality of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation
 s (ASEAN). Nevertheless, ASEAN recognized the strategic challenge that the 
 increasing great power rivalry can undermine its ability to steer the insti
 tutional development of Southeast Asia and the wider Indo-Pacific. Therefor
 e, ASEAN responded with its own Indo-Pacific strategy. Therein the Associat
 ion stresses the need for an inclusive regionalism, deeper multilateral coo
 peration and upholding its regional centrality.\n\nThe aim of this roundtab
 le is to bring together international experts with different disciplinary b
 ackgrounds to discuss ASEAN’s ability to promote a peaceful and stable, rul
 esbased order in the Indo-Pacific. Addressed will be the following question
 s: Does ASEAN’s inclusive regionalism remain an adequate means to balance t
 he interests of the great powers in the realms of economics, connectivity a
 nd security? Or does ASEAN, due to the power asymmetries in the Indo-Pacifi
 c, merely react to the policies and the behavior of the great powers? Will 
 China- and US-centered collaboration formats emerge, forcing the Southeast 
 Asian nations to choose sides? How do ASEAN and its members respond to the 
 power rivalry between the United States and China specifically in the South
  China Sea?
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/southeast-asia-caught-between-great-power-politics
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