Enter the Vanguard State: Reinterpreting ASEAN’s Response to the South China Sea Issue

Laura Southgate; Nicholas Khoo

doi:10.1177/2347797016645454

Enter the Vanguard State: Reinterpreting ASEAN’s Response to the South China Sea Issue

Laura Southgate, Nicholas Khoo

School of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Abstract

This article analyzes the Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s (ASEAN) interactions with China over the South China Sea issue since the end of the Cold War. A neorealist understanding of ASEAN’s international relations is advanced. This approach highlights the degree of security maximizing interest convergence between key ASEAN actors and an extra-regional actor, the United States, to explain the varying outcomes in the empirical record. Our approach is contrasted to alternatives in the existing literature that either overemphasize or underemphasize ASEAN’s autonomy in regional politics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	221-244
Journal	Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs
Volume	3
Issue number	2
Early online date	7 Jul 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2347797016645454
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2016

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ASEAN, South China Sea, regional autonomy, Vanguard State Theory, external interference

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