Managing Great Power Politics - 9789811926105

Managing Great Power PoliticsASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea\nAuthor(s): Kei Koga\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9789811926105, 978-9811926105\nSynopsis\nThis Open Access book explains ASEANs 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--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 .